scripton

Noun

scripton (plural scriptons)

1. (molecular biology) A segment of DNA or RNA that is under the control of a single autonomous promotor. A single scripton may encode multiple cistrons involving separate terminators.
   • Approximately by 10-15 min after infection, the protein tof turns on the transcription of the scripton L2.1983, Klaus Bellmann, Molecular genetic information systems: modelling and simulation, page 86
   • In the biological dose range, the major effects of UV irradiation on transcription are results of and are in direct correlation to the residual scripton length.2013, John T. Lett, Howard Adler, Advances in Radiation Biology - Volume 6, →ISBN, page 80
2. An unbroken sequence of textons within a hypertext or other dynamic text as it appears to the reader.
   • If you manage to pick it up, you might read "You steal the lamp. Unfortunately, it is just a piece of useless junk./Taken." (If there is no message programed by the lamp's maker, you will just see the scripton "Taken.") Other players with a character in the same room might see a scripton saying...1997, Espen J. Aarseth, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, →ISBN, page 154
   • The reader has the choice to read the whole scripton or only parts of it before following a link. As a consequence, scriptons are not necessarily identical to what readers actually read, but what an ideal reader would read by strictly following the linear structure of the textual output.2012, Arno Scharl, Evolutionary Web Development, →ISBN, page 22