prealignment

English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ alignment.

Noun

prealignment (plural prealignments)

1. alignment prior to some other operation
   • 2015 November 17, “miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA Entropy”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:

     Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads.

Adjective

prealignment (not comparable)

1. Prior to alignment