prealignment
alignment prior to some other operation
Adjective
- Prior to alignment
Origin
From pre- + alignment.
Noun
- alignment prior to some other operation
- Nearly 1.8 million reads were removed during the prealignment steps of linker removal, QC and collapsing reads. - 2015 November 17, “miRge - A Multiplexed Method of Processing Small RNA-Seq Data to Determine MicroRNA...