[Chicago] Closest Index

[Oren Livne]

Dear Shelia

These are great questions.
A is a set of positions of genetic markers on a chromosome. It is read 
from an input data file and is sorted.
As such, A has no duplicate elements.
A's values have variable density along the chromosome. It is not easy to 
characterize. Can be locally dense.
A is used once. However, I have 22 different (A,B) pairs for 22 
autosomal chromosomes.

Oren

On 1/5/2013 9:21 AM, sheila miguez wrote:
> I have naive questions.
>
> How did A get constructed? If an example of integers in A is
> 1,1,2,3,3,3 is it a list of that, or a counter 2,1,3 or something
> else? What is the distribution of A? When you do the work do you have
> to construct A every time or will it live around for a while?