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== Parsimony ==
== Parsimony ==
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.
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.
