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From: Generalization through similarity: motif discourse in the discovery and elaboration of zinc finger proteins

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Characterization of populations. Schematic illustration of two populations in terms of distributions of some measurable parameter and in terms of the mean values for those distributions. Similarity-based characterization of these populations focuses on the distributions, whereas identity-based characterization focuses on the means and treats the distribution as noise or as aberrant values.

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