shotgun sequencing
nounEtymology
Formed through analogy with the effect of a shotgun blast, which contains many small pellets.
Definitions
A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA…
A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
- In shotgun sequencing of genomic DNA, fragments of a genome are sequenced and computationally reassembled to determine the genome of an organism
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for shotgun sequencing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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