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Glossary Terms

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