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- noun A genetic mutation caused by the insertion or deletion of a segment of DNA into an organism's genome.
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- noun genetics Either an
insertion ordeletion mutation in the geneticcode .
Etymologies
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Because in my first chapter I created a sequence simulation program, Dawg, that could simulate evolution using a power law of indel sizes, I felt that it was important to test this suggestion out.
Logarithmic Gap Costs Decrease Alignment Accuracy - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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Because in my first chapter I created a sequence simulation program, Dawg, that could simulate evolution using a power law of indel sizes, I felt that it was important to test this suggestion out.
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On another note, as I recall from my undergraduate days, we learned that a “mutation” was simply a change in the DNA RNA, certain viruses base sequence, be it a point mutation, indel, inversion…silent or otherwise.
The Faith That Dare Not Speak Its Name - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The film was so well done in these regards that it has left an indel - ible imprint on our common knowledge regarding not just Count Dracula, but vampires in general.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition) 1994
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Here the interpretation of the positive effect of the interaction terms between indel type and GC content and poly (A/T) is not straightforward since this indicates one of two possibilities: either
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Per Sjödin et al. 2010
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When investigating how indels relate to the log-transformed recombination rate, all explanatory variables used in the prediction of the indel counts described above were used except for the recombination rate, variables related to fixed human variation and chimp variation.
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Bowtie can also output alignments in the standard SAM format, allowing Bowtie to interoperate with other tools supporting SAM, including the SAMtools consensus, SNP, and indel callers.
HITSphere Feeds 2010
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Ponting CP, Hein J (2006) Genome-wide identification of human functional DNA using a neutral indel model.
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In fact, given that the distance between SNPs with a polymorphic indel between them is on average shorter than the distance given in the databases (an indel in the Seattle SNPs and NIEHS databases is always represented by the long indel variant regardless of whether it is an insertion or a deletion), we underestimate the recombination rate.
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This also showed that the marginally significant effect of the interaction between indel type and logged recombination rate is due to a positive correlation between the number of polymorphic insertions and the logged recombination rate in our data.
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john commented on the word indel
"Four months later, the TIGR scientists were elated when they discovered the morph had a major genetic change in its genome, known as an indel, short for insertion or deletion of DNA."
The New York Times, A Trained Eye Finally Solved the Anthrax Puzzle, by Nicholas Wade, August 20, 2008
August 21, 2008
reesetee commented on the word indel
Genetic scientists don't like to use whole words, do they?
August 21, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word indel
Y, ind.
August 21, 2008