(n.) The state of being sequent; succession; order of following; arrangement.
(n.) That which follows or succeeds as an effect; sequel; consequence; result.
(n.) Simple succession, or the coming after in time, without asserting or implying causative energy; as, the reactions of chemical agents may be conceived as merely invariable sequences.
(n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
(n.) A melodic phrase or passage successively repeated one tone higher; a rosalia.
(n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name.
(n.) Three or more cards of the same suit in immediately consecutive order of value; as, ace, king, and queen; or knave, ten, nine, and eight.
(n.) All five cards, of a hand, in consecutive order as to value, but not necessarily of the same suit; when of one suit, it is called a sequence flush.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amino acid sequence deduced from the nucleotide sequence contained both amino- and carboxyl-terminal sequences.
(2) The process of sequence rearrangement appears to be a significant part of the evolution of the genome and may have a much greater effect on the evolution of the phenotype than sequence alteration by base substitution.
(3) These results show that the pathogenic phenotypes of MCF viruses are dissociable from the thymotropic phenotype and depend, at least in part, upon the enhancer sequences.
(4) The nucleotide sequence of a 2.2-kb DNA fragment which contains the complete RAD7 gene was determined.
(5) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(6) We have examined the insertion of bovine 17 alpha-hydroxylase (P45017 alpha) into the endoplasmic reticulum of COS 1 cells to evaluate the functional role of its hydrophobic amino-terminal sequence and membrane insertion.
(7) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
(8) (dG-dA)n, but not to other homocopolymeric sequences such as (dC-dG)n .
(9) Sequence variation in the gp116 component of cytomegalovirus envelope glycoprotein B was examined in 11 clinical strains and compared with variation in gp55.
(10) Amino acid sequence analysis showed that both peaks had identical N-terminal sequences through the first 28 residues.
(11) Each profile is described by a simple sequence of band transitions (BT-sequence).
(12) The complete nucleotide sequence of the gene for a cell surface protein antigen (SpaA) of Streptococcus sobrinus MT3791 (serotype g) was determined.
(13) The deduced amino acid sequence contained no consensus sequence indicative of N-glycosylation.
(14) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(15) These sequences are also conserved in the same arrangement in minor sequence classes of minicircles from this strain.
(16) Nucleotide sequence analysis of cDNAs for asparagine synthetase (AS) of Pisum sativum has uncovered two distinct AS mRNAs (AS1 and AS2) encoding polypeptides that are highly homologous to the human AS enzyme.
(17) Based on the deduced amino acid sequence, rpL8 has a mass of 28,605 Da, a pI of 11.97, and contains 9.6% Arg and 11.9% Lys.
(18) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
(19) A cDNA library prepared from human placenta has been screened for sequences coding for factor XIIIa, the enzymatically active subunit of the factor XIII complex that stabilizes blood clots through crosslinking of fibrin molecules.
(20) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
Tuple
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) In this connection the question about the contribution of each word of length l (l-tuple) to the inhomogeneity of genetic text arises.
(2) A matching matrix species which k-tuples match each other.
(3) In our master-worker (MW) parallel implementation, a master process creates several worker processes, extracts a test sequence and multiple library sequences from a database and stores them in tuple space.
(4) An algorithm is described for generation of the long sequence written in a four letter alphabet from the constituent k-tuple words in the minimal number of separate, randomly defined fragments of the starting sequence.
(5) The present study proposes an algorithm that allows to overcome the computational difficulties occurring in the course of the method during reconstruction of the DNA sequence by its l-tuple composition.
(6) It is shown also that the biochemical problems connected with the loss of information about the l-tuple DNA composition during hybridization are not crucial and can be overcome by finding the maximal flow of minimal cost in the special graph.
(7) We then studied the distribution of oligonucleotides (or k-tuples) of each length in a subset of 129 complete mammalian genes spanning 0.607 Mb.
(8) It is shown that the efficiency of the statistical l-tuple filtration upon DNA database search is associated with a potential extension of the original four-letter alphabet and grows exponentially with increasing l. The formula that allows one to estimate the filtration parameters is presented.
(9) The concept of the algorithm enables operations with the k-tuple sets containing false positive and false negative k-tuples.
(10) In addition, one can match k-tuples or words instead of matching individual residues in order to speed the search.
(11) The frequency occurrences of K-tuple (overlapping sequences of defined length, K) were computed from the known human genome sequences.
(12) Parental bonding was assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument [PBI; Parker, G. Tupling, H. & Brown, L.B.
(13) Each worker reads the test sequence and then repeatedly extracts library strings from tuple space, performs pairwise sequence comparison using a local comparison algorithm to generate a similarity score, and returns the similarity scores to tuple space.
(14) Average CLW distances for a variety of common word structures were more or less parallel to MDD distances for appropriately long t-tuples.
(15) relatively evenly distributed over a genome) versus non-stationary l-tuples has been introduced previously.
(16) Some of the rare 5-tuples identified by this strategy belonged to a portion of the nine base-pair binding site in promoters, which is also known as the octamer motif.
(17) Very few rare 5-tuples were identified; in addition, three oligonucleotides, reverse complements of rare 5-tuples, were found to have a frequency ranging between 0.582 and 0.671.
(18) We report that, through the use of alternative encodings of the DNA sequence in the complex plane, the number of FFTs performed can be traded off against (i) signal-to-noise ratio, and (ii) a certain degree of filtering for local similarity via k-tuple correlation.
(19) We defined as rare those 5-tuples having an observed frequency less than 50% of that expected by chance on the basis of base composition, and which had a reduction in frequency not attributable to CpG suppression or to coding constraints.
(20) Nucleotide or amino-acid sequences are interpreted as successions of words of length k (k-tuples) the frequencies of which are highly variable in different statistical populations of genes or proteins.