amplicon

American  

[am-pluh-kahn] / ˈæm pləˌkɑn /

noun

• amplicons
  plural

1. Genetics. a piece of DNA or RNA that is the template for or the product of an amplification process, in which the DNA or RNA has been duplicated.

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Noun Inflected Forms

• amplicons
  plural

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amplicon amplicons

Then, the researchers used 16s rRNA sequencing and amplicon sequencing, ultimately identifying 333 BPA-resistant bacterial species.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2024

To avoid known issues that arise when multiple amplicon strategies are combined49, we also standardized PCR primers, amplification strategy, and sequencing50.

From Nature ● Oct. 31, 2017

Alterations have been seen in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing profiles of adults from Sweden99 and China100 who have experienced cardiovascular events, although the same OTUs were not identified in both cohorts.

From Nature ● Jul. 5, 2016

Analysis of the partial 16S rRNA gene sequence generated from the 16S rRNA gene amplicon libraries was carried out using the mothur MiSeq SOP34 on 29 August 2014, generating 7,549 OTUs across all samples.

From Nature ● May 3, 2016

An Illumina library was constructed from the same amplicon pool and tagmented using the Nextera XT library preparation kit.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

These samples failed to generate amplicons using any of these primer pairs and were subsequently excluded from the analysis on the basis that they were likely to be of poor quality.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

PCR amplicons were subjected to paired-end sequencing using Illumina Miniseq.

From Nature ● Aug. 1, 2017

Using as few amplicons as possible significantly reduces effort when preparing samples.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

For these we used a modified RT–PCR scheme using 19 shorter amplicons.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

We assumed that difficulties generating long amplicons related to low numbers of starting molecules of that length in the original sample.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016