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misannotated

misannotated adjective: incorrectly annotated.

Adjective

misannotated (not comparable)

  1. Incorrectly annotated.
    • This small amount of sequenced tags only mapping to the genome may correspond to potential novel unsequenced transcripts, alternative 3’-UTR exons of splicing isoforms, misannotated or alternative poly-adenylation sites, or even to non-coding RNAs not represented yet in the present transcriptome...2015 May 8, Gustavo Rodríguez-Esteban et al., “Digital gene expression approach over multiple RNA-Seq data sets to detect neoblast transcriptional changes in Schmidtea mediterranea”, in BMC Genomics...

Origin of misannotated

From mis- + annotated.

Questions about misannotated

What does misannotated mean?
Misannotated means incorrectly annotated.
What part of speech is misannotated?
Misannotated is an adjective.

Words near misannotated in the dictionary

  1. misangas
  2. Misanko
  3. misanneal
  4. misannealed
  5. misannotate
  6. misannotated
  7. misannotates
  8. misannotating
  9. misannotation
  10. misannotations
  11. misanswer

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