pseudoaligner

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ aligner.

Noun

pseudoaligner (plural pseudoaligners)

  1. (genetics, bioinformatics, rare) A tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.
    • 2023, Xinkun Wang, Next-Generation Sequencing Data Analysis:
      For example, kallisto is a pseudoaligner that aligns k-mers in reads to a hash table built from k-mers that represent different transcripts in the reference transcriptome.
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