Thanks Bob for bringing this to our attention. We see your point about the text being misleading by using the phrase "exact match". We will make this text more clear.
Brian On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Bob Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Howdy, > > In the Methods paragraph in the description of "mapability", at > http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTrackUi?g=wgEncodeMapability > the phrase "S=1 means exact match, S=0.5 is two matches" is > misleading. Reading the rest of the paragraph, what S=1 apparently > means is that the k-mer is unique in the genome at edit distance 2 > (counting only mismatches). Similarly, S=2 means there are two k-mers > within edit distance 2-- the one at this position and one somewhere > else (and that one may or may not be a match). > > It is easy to read "exact match" and think that no mismatches are > allowed. > > Bob H > > P.S. mapability should really have two ps, but it's probably too late > to correct that. > > _______________________________________________ > Genome maillist - [email protected] > https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome > _______________________________________________ Genome maillist - [email protected] https://lists.soe.ucsc.edu/mailman/listinfo/genome
