Fig. 2
From: Reference-free transcriptome signatures for prostate cancer prognosis
Merging procedure of 3 example contigs: a Count table of contigs in samples. Both pairs (contig1, contig2) and (contig2, contig3) have good overlaps shifting by only one nucleotide, but the sample count vectors of contig1 and contig2 are not compatible. b Merging intervention considering sample count compatibility between contigs. The mean absolute contrast (MAC) is calculated for each pair, and merging of (contig1, contig2) is rejected due to a MAC value exceeding threshold. c The resulting contigs are the initial contig1 and the merged contig from the initial (contig2, contig3) pair