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shotgunning

  • present participle
    of shotgun.
    shotgun
    noun
    a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals.

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Ithaca Model 4E This single-barrel trap gun was the last survivor of the Golden Age of shotgunning.

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At the time, Venter was using a technique called shotgunning.

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In essence, shotgunning amounts to putting DNA into a chemical Cuisinart.

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Venter admits that whole-genome shotgunning will leave gaps in the sequence where segments can't be fitted perfectly.

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Instead of assigning various segments of the genome to hundreds of scientists, as the Genome Project does, Venter plans to use what he calls whole-genome shotgunning.

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