Subread

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A subset of a read (sequence of DNA generated by sequencing)

    "An in-house Perl script was used to calculate the distribution of subread lengths and identify the range of lengths that would give a coverage around 10."

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"An in-house Perl script was used to calculate the distribution of subread lengths and identify the range of lengths that would give a coverage around 10."

Etymology

From sub- + read.

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