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Noun

shotgun sequencing ‎(uncountable)

1. (genetics) A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.
   • 2005, Selene K Swanson; Michael P. Washburn, “The continuing evolution of shotgun proteomics”, in Drug Discovery Today, page 719:

     In shotgun sequencing of genomic DNA, fragments of a genome are sequenced and computationally reassembled to determine the genome of an organism

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• shotgun sequencing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia