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

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

Gel electrophoresis confirmed that the size of the PCR product corresponded to the expected amplicon size.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017

PCR amplification of the sgRNA2b on-target site was initially performed on all samples using a primer pair generating an amplicon size of 244 bp, which is also suitable for MiSeq analysis.

From Nature ● Sep. 19, 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

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

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

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

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016

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

From Nature ● Feb. 2, 2016