Friday, 6 December 2024, 3:09 AM
Site: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics E-learning Portal
Course: Vocabularies for bioinformatics (2023_VOCAB)
Glossary: Glossary
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ortholog

A gene in a different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation. In general, orthologs retain the same function during the course of evolution.

outlier

a data point which is outside the norm and differs from expectations