Notebook intervals

Intervals are one of the most common data abstractions used in genome informatics, along with strings and graphs. DNA has an intricate dynamic three-dimensional structure, but for many bioinformatics applications we can get away with ignoring this level of detail and representing the molecule instead as a static linear sequence of symbols. Genomic features—such as genes or transposable elements …

I recently sketched out some notes on random placement of genomic intervals. Here I show a more concrete implementation

I've been looking at statistics of gene spacing, but as of yet have not compared these to benchmarks of "randomly" distributed genes. Here I sketch out a few rough notes on the topic.