Basic Bioinformatics Terms on letter D

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

1. What is "Dendrogram"?

Dendrogram - It is another name for phylogenetic tree. The ClustalW guide tree is often referred to as a dendrogram, it is a file with a .dnd extension.

2. What is "Distance matrix"?

Distance matrix - It is a matrix that contains all the pairwise distances between sequences in a data set. Distance matrices afe often u sed to compute phylogenetic trees. Not a substitution matrix.