Helper function for calculating guide lines and labels in heatmap
Source:R/bwplot.R
      dot-heatmap_lines.RdHelper function for calculating guide lines and labels in heatmap
Arguments
- loci
- Number of loci (rows) 
- nbins
- Number of bins (columns) 
- bin_size
- Bin size. Length of bin in base pairs. The lower, the higher the resolution. 
- upstream
- Number of base pairs to include upstream of loci. 
- downstream
- Number of base pairs to include downstream of loci. 
- mode
- How to handle differences in lengths across loci: - stretch: Anchor each locus on both sides. - start: Anchor all loci on start. - end: Anchor all loci on end. - center: Center all loci. 
- expand
- Whether to apply padding to the ticks. Otherwise a strange box shows on heatmap.