This glossary contains a number of definitions from the following publication:
J. M. Cock; Tessmar-Raible, K.; Boyen, C.; Viard, F. (Eds.), Introduction to Marine Genomics, vol. 1, 1st ed., Advances in Marine Genomics Vol. (Springer, 2010). Available from: http://www.springer.com/life+
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Mate-pair |
Paired reads of the two ends of a cloned DNA molecule. Mate-pairs are often used by genome assembly programs to orient and order contigs, taking into account the distance between the ends of the DNA molecule and the orientation relationship of the sequences. |