Meanings
nounpseudoalignment (countable and uncountable, plural pseudoalignments)
plural pseudoalignments
- countableuncountablebiologyA quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information.
In particular, we show that the recent idea of pseudoalignment introduced in the RNA-Seq context is suitable in the metagenomics setting.
2015, Lorian Schaeffer, Harold Pimentel, Nicolas Bray, Páll Melsted, Lior Pachter, “Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignment”, in arXiv
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