Pseudoalignment

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

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"In particular, we show that the recent idea of pseudoalignment introduced in the RNA-Seq context is suitable in the metagenomics setting."

Etymology

From pseudo- + alignment.

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