Microindel

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A very short indel (less than 50 bases)

    "Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis."

Example

More examples

"Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis."

Etymology

From micro- + indel.

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