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Sequencher 4.8 User Manual--PC - Bioinformatics and Biological ...

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30. Glossary<br />

Name<br />

Administrator<br />

Agent<br />

ASCII<br />

Assemble by<br />

Name<br />

Base caller<br />

Button bar<br />

CAF<br />

Checkbox<br />

Click<br />

Confidence<br />

score<br />

Contig<br />

Definition<br />

Also known as Admin or admin user. A user account that typically<br />

has privileges which allow the user to change system settings <strong>and</strong><br />

install software.<br />

A region in some dialog boxes (<strong>and</strong> also in the contig editor) that<br />

contains information in text form.<br />

American St<strong>and</strong>ard Code for Information Interchange; the most<br />

widely accepted coding system that permits letters, numbers <strong>and</strong><br />

punctuation to be represented in binary computer code.<br />

A feature which uses portions of sequences’s name to determine<br />

against which other sequences it will be compared against to<br />

construct a contig.<br />

Program that analyses fluorescent trace intensities from automated<br />

sequencer <strong>and</strong> assigns bases together with a probability of error.<br />

The tool region in a <strong>Sequencher</strong> window. The button bar is located<br />

just below the title bar.<br />

A format for describing sequence assemblies.<br />

A control that lets you toggle a parameter. Click the box to turn it on<br />

or off. When a checkbox is active, it is displayed with an “X” in the<br />

box.<br />

Press <strong>and</strong> immediately release the mouse button.<br />

A number associated with each base call <strong>and</strong> which defines the<br />

likelihood that a base call is incorrect. The most common scale is<br />

from 1-60, where “60” represents a 1/106 chance of a wrong call <strong>and</strong><br />

20 represents a 1/102 chance. See also Quality score.<br />

Contiguous alignment of a set of sequences to make up the sequence<br />

of bases from a longer piece of DNA.<br />

SEQUENCHER <strong>4.8</strong> <strong>User</strong> <strong>Manual</strong> for Windows © 1991 - 2007 Gene Codes Corporation, Inc. All rights reserved.<br />

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