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Glossary Term Whole-genome Shotgun Sequencing
Definition The sequencing of the entire genome of an organism through the sequencing of randomly-derived subsegments whose order and orientation is unknown until the assembly of overlapping sequences is performed computationally. The method works if all positions in the genome are covered by multiple overlapping subsegments.
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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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