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| == Parsimony == | | == Parsimony == |
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− | Parsimony means doing something in the simplest and most economical way. In the context of variant representation, this means representing a variant in as few nucleotides as possible without reducing the length of any allele to 0. | + | Parsimony means doing something in the simplest and most economical way. In the context of variant representation, this means representing a variant in as few nucleotides as possible without reducing the length of any allele to 0. It is a property describing the nature of the length of a variant's alleles. |
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| A variant is parsimonious if it is represented in as few nucleotides as possible without an allele of length 0. | | A variant is parsimonious if it is represented in as few nucleotides as possible without an allele of length 0. |