出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2017/01/20 19:19 UTC 版)
k + -mer
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/09 02:02 UTC 版)
The term k-mer (or x-mer where x can be virtually any consonant of choice) usually refers to a specific n-tuple or n-gram of nucleic acid or amino acid sequences that can be used to identify certain regions within biomolecules like DNA (e.g. for gene prediction) or proteins. Either k-mer strings as such can be used for finding regions of interest, or k-mer statistics giving discrete probability distributions of a number of possible k-mer combinations (or rather permutations with repetitions) are used. Specific short k-mers are called oligomers or "oligos" for short.