Fig. 3

Representation of candidate alignments as a function of alignment features. The results shown are based on aligning a 26-fragment simulated experimental map on the human reference genome. The green comet represents the true solution, and also the best solution π^∗ found by OPTIMA (p-value p^∗=2.16e⁻⁹), while the blue comet belongs to a false alignment with the lowest number of cut errors (p=7.35e⁻⁶). Note here that despite having many near-optimal solutions, OPTIMA unambiguously identifies the correct solution based on its statistical analysis