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

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

No amplicon covers the extreme 3′ region of the genome.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

False negatives may result in masked sequences, owing to being outside of regions covered by the amplicon scheme, having low coverage or falling within a primer binding site.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 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

Archived Zaire Ebolavirus was amplified using 38 primer pairs, giving approximately 500 base pair amplicons, according to the study protocol.

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

However, failure of individual amplicons to amplify, or unbalanced coverage of regions may reduce this figure.

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

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

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016