shotgun sequencing

Noun

Meaning

shotgun sequencing (uncountable)

(genetics) A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
Synonym: shotgun cloning

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Shotgun sequencing is the method of choice for virtually all genomes sequenced today, and genome assembly algorithms are a critical area of bioinformatics research. Source: Internet

Shotgun sequencing yields sequence data quickly, but the task of assembling the fragments can be quite complicated for larger genomes. Source: Internet

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