shotgun sequencing

noun

Etymology

Formed through analogy with the effect of a shotgun blast, which contains many small pellets.

Definitions

  1. 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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