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What are the min and max of these numbers? What are the typical and maximum spans of the regions?

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Re^6: What is the best approach to check if a position falls within a target range?
by umasuresh (Hermit) on Feb 12, 2011 at 14:38 UTC
    The range can be anywhere from 200 to 300 or more. There is no defined min and max.
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      There is no defined min and max.

      Would it be fair say that min is typically 0 and max < 2**16 or 2**32? (Which?)

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        Hi BrowserUk,
        The target region is a chromosome bed file which spans on an average a 300 base region on any chromosome. Let us say the target region contains incremental regions of 300 each. I am trying to identify if a SNP falls in the target region. 2**16 or 2**32 as max is really too big!
        target region
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chr1 100 400
chr1 450 750
chr1 780 980
...

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        Thanks Much,
        Uma
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