[ensembl-dev] GERP $conservation_score->diff_score()

[Stephen Fitzgerald]

On Mon, 17 Feb 2014, Benoît Ballester wrote:

Hi Ben,

> Hi Compara,
>
> Could someone from Compara explains/confirms what $gerp->diff_score returns, it isn't clear to me form the perl doc ?
>
> From what I understand it returns a value that correspond to (Gerp Expected - Gerp Observed). Is that right ?
>

Yes.

> However I am confused by the "can be either packed or space delimited " and "$conservation_score->diff_score("1.85 -2.54 1.56");". I am expecting just one value to be returned : the difference between Expected - Observed. So why multiple values in the example ?
>

Not sure about this, you are right, there is only one value returned 
for each conservationScore object.

> Finally, is this Gerp diff_score value the value that is displayed on Gerp track in Contigview/Region in detail ?
>

Yes.

> Thanks,

Cheers,
Stephen.

>
> Ben
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