Overlap in python

[John Ladasky]

On Aug 4, 3:21 pm, Jay Bird <jay.bird0... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I wanted to thank you all for your help and *excellent* discussion.  I
> was able to utilize and embed the script by Grigor Lingl in the 6th
> post of this discussion to get my program to work very quickly (I had
> to do about 20 comparisons per data bin, with over 40K bins in
> total).  I am involved in genomic analysis research and this problem
> comes up a lot and I was surprised to not have been able to find a
> clear way to solve it.  I will also look through all the tips in this
> thread, I have a feeling they may come in handy for future use!
>
> Thank you again,
> Jay

Hi Jay,

I know this is a bit off-topic, but how does this pertain to genomic
analysis?  Are you counting the lengths of microsatellite repeats or
something?