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Meaning of shotgun sequencing | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.

uncountable

Equivalents

한국어 샷건 시퀀싱
中文 鸟枪法

Examples

“In shotgun sequencing of genomic DNA, fragments of a genome are sequenced and computationally reassembled to determine the genome of an organism”

CEFR level

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

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