Alias ReadPoint
A region, interval or point of the reference/read.
A point is a zero-based coordinate (property value
) on the contig/read
specified by contigId
/readId
.
An interval is a pair of zero-based coordinates describing the right-open
interval [begin, end)
on the contig/read specified by
contigId
/readId
.
A region is a collection of disjunctive intervals. When creating or expanding a region the intervals are normalized, i.e. merged if they overlap. This is the internal representation of masks.