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sequencing

[′sē·kwəns·iŋ]
(industrial engineering)
Designating the order of performance of tasks to assure optimal utilization of available production facilities.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

sequencing

An act of specifying the exact order in which aircraft are to take off or land.
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Reduced cost and high speed of NGS technology, increased usage in the clinical segment, new application areas of NGS and switch over from microarrays to NGS, are expected to propel the growth of next-generation sequencing market.
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