Figure 2From: Fractal MapReduce decomposition of sequence alignmentEncoding and decoding the base sequence. The period identifies the junction between the beginning and end of the sequence. Forward encoding (Equation 1, Figure 1 Left) takes place clockwise and Backward encoding (Equation 2, Figure 1 right) takes place counterclockwise. Both forward and backward CGR coordinates are displayed for the 8th unit of the sequence. The adjacent sequence units can be determined (decoded) from those coordinate values alone. As shown later, this observation can be used to assess an alignment by comparing the paired coordinates directly, demonstrating that sequence alignment can be performed through (independent) Map functions.Back to article page