prealignment

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ alignment.

Noun

prealignment (countable and uncountable, plural prealignments)

  1. An alignment prior to some other operation.
    • 2015 November 17, “miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA Entropy”, in PLOS ONE‎[1], →DOI:
      Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads.

Adjective

prealignment (not comparable)

  1. Prior to an alignment.
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