Seminested

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Partially nested not-comparable

    "After 40 cycles of seminested amplification (94°C for 30s, 60°C for 30s, 68°C for 30s), the PCR product was separated by 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis and the positive product (∼350 to 400 bp) was purified using a Gel/PCR DNA fragment extraction kit (Geneaid)."

Example

More examples

"After 40 cycles of seminested amplification (94°C for 30s, 60°C for 30s, 68°C for 30s), the PCR product was separated by 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis and the positive product (∼350 to 400 bp) was purified using a Gel/PCR DNA fragment extraction kit (Geneaid)."

Etymology

From semi- + nested.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.