Third, concatenation or merging further dilutes the already low signal-to-noise ratio in each descriptor.
The adjacent clusters (intervals) are merged further until only one cluster whose NAsso value is 1 remained.
If desired, the remaining peaks and their associated clumps can be merged further to form composite clumps.
From the call frequency weighted network (G^{n}_{c}), we detect eight communities as shown in Figure 6 (left), whereas only five communities are detected from call duration weighted networks with several adjacent communities merged further as shown in Figure 6 (middle).
This procedure was performed iteratively until the clusters cannot be merged further.
These exons could not be merged further based on similarity to each other.
These clusters were merged further if the associated genomic sequences were overlapping or immediately adjacent to each other.
In the second step, i.e. the reduction from 15 to 14 clusters (i.e. model GTR14C in Table 5), the GXG and TXG context are merged, further reducing the number of parameters to 84.
The merge process further improves the alignment by replacing the long unaligned portions of RDP Infernal with the corresponding region from the NAST alignment.
