| 1. | Abstract Syntax Notation (ASN.1) | A language that is used to describe structured data types formally.Within bioinformatics, it has been used by the National Center for Biotechnology Information to encode sequences, maps, taxonomic … 0.3 KB |
| 2. | Accession number | A unique identifier that is assigned to a single database entry for a DNA or protein sequence. |
| 3. | Affine gap penalty | A gap penalty score that is a linear function of gap length, consisting of a gap opening penalty and a gap extension penalty multiplied by the length of the gap. Using this penalty scheme greatly en… 0.3 KB |
| 4. | Alignment | Refers to the procedure of comparing two or more sequences by looking for a series of individual characters or character patterns that are in the same order in the sequences. Of the two types of al… 0.3 KB |
| 5. | Alignment score | An algorithmically computed score based on the number of matches, substitutions, insertions, and deletions (gaps) within an alignment. Scores for matches and substitutions are derived from a scorin… 0.5 KB |
| 6. | Algorithm | Any sequence of actions (e.g., computational steps) that perform a particular task |
| 7. | Allele | Alternative versions of a gene or other segment if a chromosome |
| 8. | Annotation | The prediction of genes in a genome, including the location of protein-encoding genes, the sequence of the encoded proteins, any significant matches to other proteins of known function, and the loc… 0.4 KB |
| 9. | Analogous | In phylogenetics, characters that have descended in a convergent fashion from unrelated ancestors. |
| 10. | Baum-Welch algorithm | An expectation maximization algorithm that is used to train hidden Markov models. |
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