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pseudoaligner

pseudoaligner noun: a tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.

Noun

pseudoaligner (plural pseudoaligners)

  1. (rare) A tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.
    • For example, kallisto is a pseudoaligner that aligns k-mers in reads to a hash table built from k-mers that represent different transcripts in the reference transcriptome.2023, Xinkun Wang, Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis

Forms of pseudoaligner

pluralpseudoaligners

Origin of pseudoaligner

From pseudo- + aligner.

Questions about pseudoaligner

What does pseudoaligner mean?
Pseudoaligner means a tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.
What part of speech is pseudoaligner?
Pseudoaligner is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudoaligner?
The plural of pseudoaligner is pseudoaligners.

Words near pseudoaligner in the dictionary

  1. pseudoalgebras
  2. pseudoalgorithm
  3. pseudoalgorithms
  4. pseudoalign
  5. pseudoaligned
  6. pseudoaligner
  7. pseudoaligners
  8. pseudoaligning
  9. pseudoalignment
  10. pseudoalignments
  11. pseudoaligns

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