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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   alignment prior to some other operation

   "Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads."

Adjective

1. 1
   Prior to alignment not-comparable

Example

More examples

"Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads."

Etymology

From pre- + alignment.

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