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+
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| BAC |
Bacterial artificial chromosome. a cloning vector carrying up to 300 kbp of insert sequence. |
| Barcoding |
A svecific piece of DNA (usually Dart of the mitochondrial cytochrome coxidase sub unit l gene) is sequenced many times from different species. There are sufficient interspecies differences in this gene, for the sequence of DNA to act as a unique code for a species and therefore be used as a taxonomic aid. |
| Bioinformatics |
The application of information technology to the field of molecular biology. |
| BioJava |
Programming networks to handle the most common file formats and tools that are used by bioinformaticians. |
| BioPerl |
Programming network to handle the most common file formats and tools that are used by bioinformaticians. |
| BLAST |
“Basic Local Alignment Search Tool”, a well-known and established tool for finding homologue sequences in large sequence databases. |
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7 /2007-2013) under grant agreement no 266055. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the European Union cannot be held responsible for any use which maybe made of the information contained therein. |
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