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Motivation What’s the most common problem you need to solve when dealing with genomics data?
For me, it is Genomic Intervals!
The genomics data usually represents linearly: chromosome name, start and end.
We use it to define a region in the genome ( A peak from ChIP-seq data); the location of a gene, a DNA methylation site ( a single point), a mutation call (a single point), and a duplication region in cancer etc.