shotgun sequencing
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed through analogy with the effect of a shotgun blast, which contains many small pellets.
Noun[edit]
shotgun sequencing (uncountable)
- (genetics) 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.
- Synonym: shotgun cloning
- 2005, Selene K Swanson with Michael P. Washburn, “The continuing evolution of shotgun proteomics”, in Drug Discovery Today, , page 719:
- In shotgun sequencing of genomic DNA, fragments of a genome are sequenced and computationally reassembled to determine the genome of an organism
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Further reading[edit]
- shotgun sequencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia