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amplicon

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

From Science Daily Mar. 1, 2024

The scalable framework introduced here can be expanded to address these needs: new studies to fill gaps in physicochemical space, amplicon data for microbial eukaryotes and viruses, and whole-genome and whole-metabolome profiling.

From Nature Oct. 31, 2017

Full-length 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing was used to determine the taxonomic proportions of bacteria from the six donor faecal samples.

From Nature May 3, 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

The 3q26 amplicon was present in all of the subtypes, but it was most characteristic of the classical subtype, which also showed the greatest overexpression of three known oncogenes on 3q: SOX2, TP63 and PIK3CA.

From Nature Sep. 26, 2012

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

We failed to generate amplicons for some samples, resulting in missing regions of the genome.

From Nature Feb. 2, 2016

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

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

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