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  • noun Plural form of gigabase.

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Examples

  • Within a few years, Turner was shooting for speeds of 100 gigabases per hour.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • Bentley later added a further 48 gigabases in another thirteen runs.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • For perspective, the global repository of DNA sequence data, GenBank, had just one-fifth that amount, or 200 gigabases.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • The Solexa instrument was originally earmarked for 1 billion bases per run, but the Leiden group “on a lucky day” could do more than 2 gigabases.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • Some clever engineering tweaks had pushed the throughput in a weeklong run to 200 gigabases and the cost of a single human genome down to $10,000.

    The $1,000 Genome Kevin Davies 2010

  • To put that into perspective, the human genome is over 3 gigabases.

    World's Smallest Genome - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • To put that into perspective, the human genome is over 3 gigabases.

    The Panda's Thumb: October 2006 Archives 2006

  • Its throughput, accuracy, speed and flexibility allow researchers to generate up to 100 gigabases of high-quality mappable sequence data needed for the advancement of molecular medicine.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The new system - Genome AnalyzerIIe generates 200 million paired-end reads and 20 gigabases (Gb) of data per run at launch.

    New Statesman 2010

  • Life Technologies had just debuted the new product line on Wednesday, saying it can generate up to 100 gigabases of mappable DNA sequence data at a cost of $6,000 per genome.

    National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010

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