misassembly
nounEtymology From mis- + assembly.
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Wrong or defective assembly.
- After computer assembly, a finishing phase ensues, wherein the gaps between assembled contigs are closed experimentally, and any misassembly is resolved.2000 March 24, Eugene W. Myers et al., “A Whole-Genome Assembly of Drosophila”, in Science, volume 287, number 5461, →DOI, pages 2196–2204:
- Other, possibly significant, failure modes which are not addressed above include misinspection, misassembly, and other human factor effects.2000, R. L. Christenson, Comprehensive Design Reliability Activities for Aerospace Propulsion Systems, page 64:
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- We first searched for large-scale misassemblies, looking for gene duplication errors, phasing errors and interchromosomal misjoins[.]2023 May 11, Wen-Wei Liao, Mobin Asri, Jana Ebler, et al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313: