pseudoalignment

noun

pseudoalignment

noun

Etymology From pseudo- + alignment.

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Biology, Genetics, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences 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.2015, Lorian Schaeffer, Harold Pimentel, Nicolas Bray, Páll Melsted, Lior Pachter, “Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignment”, in arXiv:
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pseudoaligner

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