(genetics) The string of base pairs (adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine) which, when arranged in triplets to form codons, create a DNA string which encodes polypeptides.

plural of rock sequence

DNA sequencing / whole genome sequencing

plural of sequence point

(programming) Any point during a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been performed, and no side effects from subsequent evaluations have yet been performed.

(genetics) The analysis of DNA sequences

plural of canonical sequence

(mathematics) The sequence of integers, each of which is the sum of the preceding two, the first and second numbers both being 1.

(number theory) For a given positive integer n, the sequence of completely reduced fractions between 0 and 1 which, when in lowest terms, have denominators less than or equal to n, arranged in order of increasing size.

plural of sequence assembly.