genons

Noun

genon (plural genons)

1. A branch cut between two complex planes.
   • The genon in this case is defined as the branch-cut point where the branch-cut line ends.2013, M Barkeshli, CM Jian, XL Qi, “Theory of defects in Abelian topological states”, in Physical Review B
2. A coding sequence (or gene) together with the information necessary to fully express that coding sequence, such as epigenetic factors.
   • The genon is defined as the coding sequence (which can then revert to being called "gene," akin to the sense of cistron, but better (less ambiguously) expresed in terms of the mRNA that is translated into a protein) together with the additional information that is needed to fully express the coding...2015, Jeremy Ramsden, Bioinformatics: An Introduction