pseudoalignment
pseudoalignment noun: a quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information.
Noun
pseudoalignment (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoalignments)
- A quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information.
- In particular, we show that the recent idea of pseudoalignment introduced in the RNA-Seq context is suitable in the metagenomics setting.2015, Lorian Schaeffer, Harold Pimentel, Nicolas Bray, Páll Melsted, Lior Pachter, “Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignment”, in arXiv
Forms of pseudoalignment
| plural | pseudoalignments |
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Origin of pseudoalignment
From pseudo- + alignment.
Questions about pseudoalignment
- What does pseudoalignment mean?
- Pseudoalignment means a quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information.
- What part of speech is pseudoalignment?
- Pseudoalignment is a noun.
- What is the plural of pseudoalignment?
- The plural of pseudoalignment is pseudoalignments.
Words near pseudoalignment in the dictionary
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