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contiguation

contiguation noun: the act of making contiguous.

Noun

contiguation (countable and uncountable, plural contiguations)

  1. The act of making contiguous
    • In brief, scaffolds were ordered using algorithm based automatic contiguation of assembled sequences (ABACAS) [ 30 ] against the C. parvum Iowa II reference genome; this genome comprises 18 contigs and mapping the assemblies to it generated 18 pseudomolecules that contained most of the assembled...2015 August 29, Stephen J. Hadfield et al., “Generation of whole genome sequences of new Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum isolates directly from stool samples”, in BMC Genomics...

Forms of contiguation

pluralcontiguations

Questions about contiguation

What does contiguation mean?
Contiguation means the act of making contiguous.
What part of speech is contiguation?
Contiguation is a noun.
What is the plural of contiguation?
The plural of contiguation is contiguations.

Words near contiguation in the dictionary

  1. contig
  2. contignation
  3. contignations
  4. contigs
  5. contiguate
  6. contiguation
  7. contiguations
  8. contiguities
  9. contiguity
  10. contiguosities
  11. contiguosity

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