shotgun sequencing
English
Etymology
Formed through analogy with the effect of a shotgun blast, which contains many small pellets.
Noun
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.
- 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
Translations
DNA sequencing technique
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See also
shotgun sequencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia