| Term Name: | mathematically_defined_repeat |
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| Synonyms: | mathematically defined repeat |
| Definition: | A mathematically defined repeat (MDR) is a experimental feature that is determined by querying overlapping oligomers of length k against a database of shotgun sequence data and identifying regions in the query sequence that exceed a statistically determined threshold of repetitiveness. |
| Ontology: | Sequence Ontology [SO:0001642] |