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pseudoalignment

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Etymology

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From pseudo- +‎ alignment.

Noun

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pseudoalignment (plural pseudoalignments)

  1. (genetics) A quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information
    • 2015, Lorian Schaeffer, Harold Pimentel, Nicolas Bray, Páll Melsted, Lior Pachter, “Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignment”, in arXiv‎[1]:
      In particular, we show that the recent idea of pseudoalignment introduced in the RNA-Seq context is suitable in the metagenomics setting.
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