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Dot plot plotting

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Render a representation of a distribution that consists of group of data points plotted on a simple scale.

Synonyms: Categorical plot plotting, Dotplot plotting

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operations, edam

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beta12orEarlier

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Dot plots are useful when having not too many (e.g. 20) data points for each category. Example: draw a dotplot of sequence similarities identified from word-matching or character comparison.

seeAlso

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_plot_(bioinformatics)