scaffold
noun
a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the construction, repair, or decoration of a building.
unscaffolded
-
a word derived from
scaffold.
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We incorporated Illumina sequencing reads generated from PCR-free libraries and analysed genotyping-by-sequencing data, leading to an optimized assembly of 566.6Mb in 2,171 scaffolds and 38,337 unscaffolded contigs.
From Nature ● Jan. 22, 2014
The number of sequences is the number of scaffolds plus the number of contigs that remained unscaffolded of size 500 bp or larger.
From Nature ● Jan. 22, 2014
