Meanings
nounmicroindel (plural microindels)
plural microindels
- biologyA very short indel (less than 50 bases)
Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis.
2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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