Bar graphs seem like one of the simplest ways to represent data. Many people assume that the longer the bar, the bigger the number it represents. Sometimes bar graphs represent an average not a total ...

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Thanks to their visual simplicity, bar graphs are popular tools for representing data. But do we really understand how to read them? New research has found that bar graphs are frequently misunderstood ...

Excel displays percentages of a whole using pie charts, also known as wedge charts of circle graphs. Businesses tend to rely on such charts. The diagrams appear cluttered when graphing many items, and ...

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These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused by the COVID-19 crisis are felt far and wide, and the world's economies have taken a staggering blow. As with most things in ...

For small genomes, it is possible to study genetic variation by assembling whole genomes and then comparing them via whole-genome comparison 6,7. For large genomes, such as the human genome, complete ...

A mathematical concept known as a de Bruijn graph turns the formidable challenge of assembling a contiguous genome from billions of short sequencing reads into a tractable computational problem. You ...