kitome

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noun

Those supposed parts of a microbiome that were introduced as contaminants from the kit used in analysis.

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Meanings

nounkitome (plural kitomes)

plural kitomes

  1. Those supposed parts of a microbiome that were introduced as contaminants from the kit used in analysis.

    These common kitome contaminants include genera such as Ralstonia, Sphingomonas, and Bradyrhizobium.

    2023, Suparna Mitra, editor, Metagenomic Data Analysis, Springer, Imprint: Humana, →ISBN, page 46

Origin

From kit + -ome.

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