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What is the formula for function "Mean"

Open Harper19 opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Appreciate the development of this great tool. For the function Mean, I am a little bit confused about the formula. I would assume it is mainly based on total mapped bases/genome length. Is it correct? Or the denominator would be the covered bases only and the not covered region will not be take into calculation?

Thanks! Harper

Harper19 avatar Dec 19 '23 15:12 Harper19

Thanks for kind words.

It's the whole genome size, assuming you are working in genome mode.

There's an example in the readme which might help too.

wwood avatar Dec 20 '23 11:12 wwood