Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter L

These Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter - L. It can boost vocabulary in bioinformatics. It can also enhance basic knowledge of Bioinformatics.

1. What is "LAN"?

LAN - It is a local area network, two or more computers connected together via cabling.

2. What is "Lateral transfer"?

Lateral transfer - It is a see Horizontal transfer, a gene acquired from another organism as opposed to inheriting it from an ancestor.

3. What is "linkage"?

Linkage - It occurs when two genes are located near each other on the same chromosome.

4. What is "Local alignment"?

Local alignment - It is an alignment of the most similar segments between sequences. Dissimilar sequences are not considered and are removed in the final output. BLAST does local alignments.

5. What is "Low-complexity filtering"?

Low-complexity filtering - It is removal of low-complexity sequences when doing a database search.

6. What is "Low complexity sequence"?

Low complexity sequence - It is a sequence that contains a few elements repeated many times

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