sequencing

• Profiling/fingerprinting


  The process of analysing DNA variations, for the purpose of identification
• STR


  Short tandem repeats – a string of repeating nucleotide units, where the number of repeated unit varies between people
• VNTR


  Variable number tandem repeats
• Intron


  Sections of non-coding DNA
• SNP 'snips'


  Single nucleotide polymorphism
• DNA sequencing


  The process of establishing the nucleotide sequence of a piece of DNA
• Sanger method


  Original method of DNA sequencing
• NGS


  Next generation sequencing
• ddNTPs


  Dideoxyriosenucleic acid nucleotides(2 oxygen atoms removed) terminating synthesis of new DNA strand
• dNTPs


  Deoxyribonucelic acid nucleotides