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Although it might be acceptable for some applications to merely list the supposed presence of bioentity mentions in a given document, potentially with information about the location of such mentions, it is much more convenient to produce a display which integrates such results with the original text in which they have been found. To achieve this, the Bioscape Web application employs a number of techniques:

# The selection of results for a particular region of text, typically a sentence.
# The traversal of such results in order, assigning each result to one or more fragments of the text.
# The production of XML output which can then be transformed into a format readable by Web browsers.

Consider this example region of text:

"single-stranded DNA-binding protein"

Now consider the following occurrences of bioentities corresponding to regions of this text:

* A - single-stranded DNA-binding
* B - binding
* C - DNA-binding protein

Upon processing these two input, the fragments should be defined as follows:

{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1" style="margin: 2em"
! Fragments
| single-stranded || DNA- || binding || protein
|-
! Occurrences
| A               || A, C || A, B, C || C
|}

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