Generally speaking, there are two possible strategies to deal with this problem: not creating the over-segmentation in the first place or merging over-segmented regions.
To merge over-segmented regions into better ones, a graph called Region Adjacent Graph is built.
For Sanger ESTs, we typically use two iterations, which merges over-split contigs; this approach of using a second assembly has been used by others, e.g. PlantGDB [ 23].
Others will be merged over the next two years, he said.
In geologic terms, Asia comprises several very ancient continental platforms and other blocks of land that merged over the eons.
Instead, there will be staggered payments that depend on FRM's ability to retain assets as the firms merge over the next three years.
"We're saying that we made a measurement that is about a thousandth the diameter of a proton, that tells us about two black holes that merged over a billion years ago," Reitze said.
The defendant companies -- Philip Morris USA; its parent, the Altria Group; the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, which merged over the summer with Reynolds; the Lorillard Tobacco Company, a subsidiary of the Loews Corporation British American Tobaccoo; and the Liggett Group -- say that the government's case is groundless.
He also aced a programmer's aptitude test at I.B.M. and began working as a computer programmer, first for the technology company and then for a succession of banks that merged over the years.
"I feel like these worlds are so merged over the past few years," cooed the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, as she pitched business ideas to venture capitalists in San Francisco in May.
