Comp Bio
Computational biology terms for algorithms, data structures, models, and comparative genomics.Use this glossary when reading papers, writing methods, or onboarding analysts to sequence analysis workflows.Categories highlight alignment, assembly, statistics, and knowledge representation concepts.
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| Term | Definition | Category |
|---|---|---|
| API | Programmatic interface that allows software systems to exchange data and actions. | Knowledge representation |
| Assembly | Reconstruction of longer sequences from overlapping short sequencing reads. | Algorithms |
| AUC | Area under the ROC curve summarizing ranking performance of a classifier. | Algorithms |
| Batch effect | Non-biological technical variation across experimental batches. | Models |
| Bayesian inference | Inference that updates prior beliefs with data to obtain a posterior distribution. | Models |
| Bit score | Normalized alignment score that is comparable across database searches. | Algorithms |
| BLAST | Heuristic search tool for rapid similarity lookups against sequence databases. | Algorithms |
| Bloom filter | Space-efficient probabilistic set membership structure with false positives. | Data structures |
| Bootstrap support | Resampling-based confidence measure for phylogenetic tree branches. | Models |
| BWT | Burrows–Wheeler transform used in compressed full-text indexing for alignment. | Data structures |
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