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This glossary of terms has been defined based on their use in genomics or relative to Affymetrix products. It was assembled with help from http://www.ornl.gov; http://db.portlandpress.com/; The Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology, Kendrew, Blackwell Science (1994); and Molecular Biology of the Cell, Alberts, et al., Garland Publishing Inc. (1983).

 

Glossary

• 25mer

• allele

• array, chip, probe array, microarray

• bioinformatics

• cDNA (Complementary DNA)

• cluster

• consensus sequence

• DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)

• DNA sequence

• EST (expressed sequence tag)

• eukaryote (as in eukaryotic)

• exemplar sequence

• expression, gene expression

• feature

• gene

• GeneChip®

• genetics

• genome

• genome project

• genomics

• genotype

• Human Genome Project

• hybridization

• model organisms

• mRNA (Messenger RNA)

• nucleic acid

• nucleotide

• oligonucleotide (or oligo)

• pharmacogenomics

• photolithography

• polymorphism

• probe

• probe pair

• probe set

• prokaryote (prokaryotic)

• protein

• RNA (Ribonucleic acid)

• sequence

• single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

• sub-cluster

• target

• target sequence

• transcription

• translation