STR

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See also: Str, Str., str, and str.

Translingual

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STR

  1. (international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Stuttgart Airport, which serves Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

English

Noun

STR (countable and uncountable, plural STRs)

  1. (genetics) Initialism of short tandem repeat.
    • 2006, Lars Feuk et al., “Structural variation in the human genome”, Nature, 7:85
      These observations lead us to predict that structural genomic variants are as important as SNPs, short tandem repeats (STRs) and other small changes in their contribution to genome variation.
    • 2023 May 11, Wen-Wei LiaoMobin AsriJana Ebleret al., “A draft human pangenome reference”, in Nature, volume 617, →DOI, page 313:
      We estimated that the following percentage of elements were correctly assembled: 95.4% of alpha satellites; 91.5% of human satellites 2 and 3; 97.7% of segmental duplications (SDs); 94.3% of variable number tandem repeats (VNTRs); 94.2% of short tandem repeats (STRs); and 98.8% of all human repeats26.
  2. (finance) Initialism of suspicious transaction report.
  3. (computing) Initialism of suspend to RAM.
  4. (roleplaying games) Initialism of strength point.
  5. (business) Initialism of sell-through rate.

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