microindel

English

Etymology

From micro- +‎ indel.

Noun

microindel (plural microindels)

1. (genetics) A very short indel (less than 50 bases)
   • 2015 August 27, “Increasing Nucleosome Occupancy Is Correlated with an Increasing Mutation Rate so Long as DNA Repair Machinery Is Intact”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Indel and microindel start and stop coordinates were used as the genomic coordinates of the mutation and all bases that fell within these coordinates were ignored for downstream analysis.