Example sentences for: over-represented

How can you use “over-represented” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • We considered a motif to be significantly over-represented if this probability was less than 0.05.

  • The small plasmids may have a growth or replication advantage causing them to be over-represented in the library following the various amplification steps.

  • A plethora of computational methods has been developed to find over-represented sequences in a subset of genes believed to contain a common transcription factor binding site (reviewed in [ 11 ] ). The rapid pace of genome sequencing has enabled a complementary approach - phylogenetic footprinting (reviewed in [ 12 13 ] ) - which recognizes that the conservation of sequences across related organisms often reflects evolutionary selection for their presence in TCRs.

  • The most conserved runs are shown in Table 1. No apparent preferences for particular functional classes were found (apart from the translation class, over-represented because of ribosomal proteins).

  • Over all, more than half of the tested stress motifs are over-represented in the promoters of the genes in the stress cDNA collection, reflecting its enrichment for stress-responsive genes.


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