indel
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of insertion deletion.
Noun
[edit]indel (plural indels)
- (genetics) Either an insertion or deletion mutation in the genetic code.
- 2009 January 16, Colin A M Semple, Martin S Taylor, “MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: The Structure of Change”, in Science, volume 323, number 5912:
- The observation that indels are enriched in linker relative to core sequence is also difficult to reconcile with a model of linker sequence conservation, because sites that are constrained for substitutions are also likely to be constrained for indel events.