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Expand Up @@ -4,12 +4,11 @@ In the [genome assembly and annotation](README.md) description, we introduce sev

Term | Definition
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Open Reading Frame (ORF) | A stretch of amino acids with no stop codon
Open Reading Frame (ORF) | A stretch of base pairs with no stop codon
Coding Sequence (CDS) | An ORF that could encode a protein
Protein encoding gene (PEG) | An ORF that could encode a protein
Hypothetical protein | Something that has not been experimentally shown
putative protein | Something that has not been experimentally shown
Putative protein | Something that has not been experimentally shown
Polypeptide | A short stretch of amino acids (typically about 20 amino acids or less)
Contig | A contiguous piece of DNA sequence that has been assembled from more than one reads. It is compiled because, as noted above, the 5' end of one sequence overlaps the 3' end of another.
Contig | A contiguous piece of DNA sequence that has been assembled from more than one reads. It is compiled because, as noted above, the 5' end of one sequence overlaps with the 3' end of another.
Read | The unit of DNA sequence that comes from a sequencing instrument. A single piece of DNA sequence.