paired-end tag

English

Noun

paired-end tag (plural paired-end tags)

  2. (genetics) Any of the short sequences, at the 5′ and 3′ ends of a DNA fragment, that are sufficiently unique (theoretically) so as to exist together only once in a genome, therefore making the sequence of the DNA in between them available upon search.
    Synonyms: PET, ditag
    Hypernyms: tag; sequence
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