"Small indels" refers to small insertions or deletions of genetic material in DNA. These are tiny changes that can happen during DNA replication, resulting in the addition or removal of a small number of nucleotides (building blocks of DNA).
Sentences with «small indels»
In some cases, CD81 knockout was accomplished via relatively small indels. (takarabio.com)
We ended up combining a few different approaches and found over 700 putative small indels, more than half of which were already in dbSNP. (massgenomics.org)
In cancer sequencing, small indels present one additional problem — determining whether they are present in the normal. (massgenomics.org)