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pseudogenome

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Etymology

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From pseudo- +‎ genome.

Noun

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pseudogenome (plural pseudogenomes)

  1. (genetics) A collection of genes that is only an incomplete genome
    • 2015 July 17, “Indexing Arbitrary-Length k -Mers in Sequencing Reads”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Yet, our preliminary experiments with adding reverse-complemented reads to the generated sequence resulted in rather moderate improvement in the pseudogenome length (e.g., shorter by about 15%), while handling the queries requires significant changes in the used data structures (and possibly more space needed for them).