Total variation distance per range of minimal absent word length between the distributions of minimal absent words in four human genome assemblies.

The total variation distance is defined as the normalized sum of the absolute differences between the two distributions in each range of minimal absent word (MAW) lengths (). GRCh37 is the reference human genome assembly build 37.1, HuRef is the genome of Craig Venter, NA12878 is the human genome assembly from cell line GM12878, and YH is the genome of a Han Chinese individual. The noRC columns display results without considering the reversed complement and the withRC columns display results considering the reversed complement.