pseudoalignment

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ alignment

Noun

pseudoalignment (plural pseudoalignments)

1. (genetics) A quick method of alignment (of genomic reads) using secondary information
   • 2015, Lorian Schaeffer, Harold Pimentel, Nicolas Bray, Páll Melsted, Lior Pachter, “Pseudoalignment for metagenomic read assignment”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     In particular, we show that the recent idea of pseudoalignment introduced in the RNA-Seq context is suitable in the metagenomics setting.

Related terms

• pseudoaligner