we have not restricted the items expressible in GFF to a specified set of feature types (splice sites, exons etc.) with defined semantics. Therefore, in order for the information in a gff file to be useful to somebody else, the person producing the features must describe the meaning of th...
-zmax allowed distance between genes. This should be roughly the upper limit of intergenic distances in the genome, meaning 99% of genes are closer than-z(seehere for an example). -Rrandomize gene order of the query, to estimate false discovery rate ...
The process to come to this meaning is interpretation. This is not particular to treaty texts. Interpretation normally presupposes an authoritative text, something authored, whether a statute, a contract, a treaty, whatever. Such text has a certain status as law. Statements of and positions on ...