misassembly

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ assembly.

Noun

misassembly (countable and uncountable, plural misassemblies)

1. Wrong or defective assembly.
   • 2000 March 24, Eugene W. Myers et al., “A Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila”, in Science‎^[1], volume 287, number 5461, →DOI, pages 2196–2204:

     After computer assembly, a finishing phase ensues, wherein the gaps between assembled contigs are closed experimentally, and any misassembly is resolved.

   • 2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64:

     Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects.

   • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:

     We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]