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microindel

microindel noun: a very short indel (less than 50 bases).

Noun

microindel (plural microindels)

  1. A very short indel (less than 50 bases)
    • Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis.2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of microindel

pluralmicroindels

Origin of microindel

From micro- + indel.

Questions about microindel

What does microindel mean?
Microindel means a very short indel (less than 50 bases).
What part of speech is microindel?
Microindel is a noun.
What is the plural of microindel?
The plural of microindel is microindels.

Words near microindel in the dictionary

  1. microincrementations
  2. microincrements
  3. microincubation
  4. microincubator
  5. microincubators
  6. microindel
  7. microindels
  8. microindentation
  9. microindentations
  10. microinduction
  11. microindustrial

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