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sequencing

[ see-kwuhn-sing ]

noun

  1. the interruption of a career by a woman to bear and care for children until they reach an age that allows her to resume work.


sequencing

/ ˈsiːkwənsɪŋ /

noun

  1. the procedure of determining the order of amino acids in the polypeptide chain of a protein ( protein sequencing ) or of nucleotides in a DNA section comprising a gene ( gene sequencing )
  2. Also calledpriority sequencing commerce specifying the order in which jobs are to be processed, based on the allocation of priorities


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Shaffer says he also wants to confirm that the test is really finding the UK variant, not some look-alike strain, and says the Oxnard sewer samples were sent to Stanford University for sequencing.

Phil Febbo is chief medical officer at Illumina, one of the world’s biggest sequencing technology companies.

Then members got voters to stop rethinking — that sequencing is important.

The technique, called long-read sequencing, “is undoubtedly the future of gene sequencing, that we can sequence whole molecules in one pop!”

Former FDA commissioner Mark McClellan said the key to the United States staying ahead of the mutations is through surveillance by genomic sequencing.

Genetic sequencing, now under way, should help nail those down.

There, genetic sequencing shows the virus came from Nigeria.

Perhaps the most potent new example is DNA sequencing which will greatly improve all our health care.

“The sequencing and pace of the second half favors Newt,” the memo read.

The pitching staff were an erudite lot, and mound conferences were as likely to feature poetry recitations as pitch sequencing.

The incorrect sequencing of the index replicates that in the original publication.

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