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Meaning of shotgun proteomics | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A laboratory method for the determining the identities of proteins in a mixture.

uncountable

Examples

“Analogous to (shotgun sequencing), in shotgun proteomics, complex protein mixtures are digested into peptides, analyzed by tandem mass spectrometry, and computer algoriths then map the peptides onto proteins to determine the original content of the mixture.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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