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With respect to the gene-level summarization, user can decide whether or not to consider intronic reads (both single- and paired-end) as compatible with the gene (Figure 54). In the latter case, the entire gene is basically treated as one giant exon. In the case that one end of a paired-end read falls within a gene, and the other end does not, the read will not be included in the gene-level summarization.

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