pseudoaligner

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noun

A tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.

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Meanings

nounpseudoaligner (plural pseudoaligners)

plural pseudoaligners

  1. rarebioinformaticsA tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.

    For example, kallisto is a pseudoaligner that aligns k-mers in reads to a hash table built from k-mers that represent different transcripts in the reference transcriptome.

    2023, Xinkun Wang, Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis

Origin

From pseudo- + aligner.

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pseudoaligner. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pseudoaligner

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