Peparing purified DNA for NGS. Fragmentizes long DNA strands and ligates primers and other sequencing related bits.

The number of sequence reads in a sequencing project that align to positions that overlap a specific base on a target genome, or the average number of aligned reads that overlap...

The ultimate consumer of a foodstuff who will not use the food as part of any foodbusiness operation or activity

The examination of any aspect of feed, food, animal health and animal welfare in order to verify that such aspect(s) comply with the legal requirements of feed and food law and...

An assessment of organisational structures include whether the objectives are relevant and clearly defined and the existence of steering and technical committees whose members...

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Proportion of known infected reference animals that test positive in the assay; infected animals that test negative are considered to have false-negative results.

The case fatality ratio is the comparison of Case fatality rate (CFR) of two diseases.

A significant association between consumption of a foodstuff and being a case in an analytical epidemiological study (e.g. cohort or case–control study)

The systematic, continuous or repeated, measurement, collection, collation, analysis, and interpretation of animal health and welfare related data in defined populations when...

Measures the proportions of positive results in statistics and diagnostic tests that are true positive results

MLST is a nucleotide sequence based approach for the unambiguous characterisation of isolates of bacteria and other organisms via the internet. The aim of MLST is to provide a...

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A process that begins when an agent leaves its reservoir or host through a portal of exit, and is conveyed by some mode of transmission, then enters through an appropriate...

A consignment is a quantity of some commodity delivered at one time. It may consist in either a portion of a lot, either a set of several lots.

A measure of the predictive value of a reported case or epidemic; the proportion of cases reported by a surveillance system or classified by a case definition which are true cases.

The classification of microorganisms on the basis of variation in the genotype, and/ or presence or absence of specific genes (such as those which may contribute to the...

Reasoner is a piece of software able to infer logical consequences from a set of asserted facts or axioms. The notion of a reasoner generalizes that of an inference engine, by...

A pathogen or hazard causing a zoonotic disease.

Definition of Population Density. In biology, populations are groups of individuals belonging to the same species that live in the same region at the same time. Population...