pyrosequencing
Noun
Meaning
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pyrosequencing (uncountable)
(genetics) A technique used to sequence DNA using chemiluminescent enzymatic reactions.
Examples
More genome data are now being produced by pyrosequencing than Sanger DNA sequencing.
However, new sequencing technologies such as pyrosequencing are gaining an increasing share of the sequencing market.
Recent studies use "shotgun" Sanger sequencing or massively parallel pyrosequencing to get largely unbiased samples of all genes from all the members of the sampled communities.
Unlike pyrosequencing, the DNA chains are extended one nucleotide at a time and image acquisition can be performed at a delayed moment, allowing for very large arrays of DNA colonies to be captured by sequential images taken from a single camera.