Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artificially constructed plasmid used for cloning large genes or other DNA sequences.
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- noun genetics A type of plasmid (often used as a cloning vector) constructed by the insertion of cos sequences, which are DNA sequences of the lambda phage.
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- noun (genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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E. coli and 25 µg/ml for M. smegmatis; and hygromycin B, 100 µg/ml for oppA (Rv1280c) of M. tuberculosis was amplified from cosmid MTCY50 using the primer pair
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arunava Dasgupta et al. 2010
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The alphaT2ib open reading frame was integrated into an adenoviral cosmid vector for production of recombinant adenovirus (AdV) - alphaT2ib.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Carsten Kirschning 2010
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However, the linearized cosmid produced an incomplete assembly because the two DNA termini, though greatly over-represented in the clone library used for sequencing, were separated from neighboring sequences by gaps of ~1. 4 and 1.8 kb.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Sherri Schwartz 2010
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These gap sizes were reduced, but not eliminated, by shearing the linear cosmid into smaller fragments.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Sherri Schwartz 2010
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1987 (Burke et al. 1987) permitted much larger segments of DNA to be ordered and stored for sequencing than was possible with plasmid or cosmid libraries.
The Human Genome Project Gannett, Lisa 2008
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