Table 1

Binning: illustration of how a DAS source may implement binning.

Positions

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

Available bins

Bin 1

Bin 2

Bin 3

Annotation score

8

3

9

1

4

7

6

7

2

0

2

4

4

3

5

Features returned

9

7

5

In this contrived example a client requests feature annotations for a segment of sequence between bases 11 and 25, with a maxbins parameter of 3. The DAS source has an annotation for every base but, after sorting each into its appropriate bin, returns only those features with the highest scores.

Jenkinson et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2008 9(Suppl 8):S3   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-S8-S3