pseudoalignment

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ alignment

Noun

pseudoalignment (plural pseudoalignments)

  1. (genetics) A quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information
    • 2015, Lorian Schaeffer, Harold Pimentel, Nicolas Bray, Páll Melsted, Lior Pachter, “Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignment”, in arXiv‎:
      In particular, we show that the recent idea of pseudoalignment introduced in the RNA-Seq context is suitable in the metagenomics setting.
  • pseudoaligner
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