Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Dot plot (bioinformatics)
open-in-new
<p>In <a href="/facts/Bioinformatics/D5x2L8ee">bioinformatics</a> a dot plot is a graphical method for comparing two <a href="/facts/Sequence_(biology)/JKT2Hh9s">biological sequences</a> and identifying regions of close similarity after <a href="/facts/Sequence_alignment/p8GQfF7b">sequence alignment</a>. It is a type of <a href="/facts/Recurrence_plot/AxSDcekL">recurrence plot</a>. </p>