pseudoaligner
nounEtymology From pseudo- + aligner.
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Bioinformatics, Biology, Computing, Engineering, Genetics, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Rare A tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.
- 2023, Xinkun Wang, Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis For example, kallisto is a pseudoaligner that aligns k-mers in reads to a hash table built from k-mers that represent different transcripts in the reference transcriptome.
- Related terms
- pseudoalignment