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paired-end tag

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.69 in modern English

Syllables
paired-end -tag
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the short sequences, at the 5′ and 3′ ends of a DNA fragment, that are sufficiently unique (theoretically) so as to exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the sequence of the DNA in between them available upon search.

Inflected Forms

paired-end tags (plural)

Synonyms

PET ditag

Questions

What does paired-end tag mean?
Any of the short sequences, at the 5′ and 3′ ends of a DNA fragment, that are sufficiently unique (theoretically) so as to exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the sequence of the DNA in between them available upon search.

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