Chimera detection
http://edamontology.org/operation_0450
Detects chimeric sequences (chimeras) from a sequence alignment.
Synonyms: Chimeric sequence detection
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A chimera includes regions from two or more phylogenetically distinct sequences. They are usually artifacts of PCR and are thought to occur when a prematurely terminated amplicon reanneals to another DNA strand and is subsequently copied to completion in later PCR cycles.