paired-end tag

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Noun

paired-end tag (plural paired-end tags)

  1. (genetics) Any of the short sequences, at the 5’ and 3’ ends of a DNA fragment, that are sufficiently unique (theoretically) so as to exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the sequence of the DNA in between them available upon search.

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