noncoding

adjective

non·​cod·​ing (ˈ)nän-ˈkō-diŋ 

: not specifying the genetic code

a noncoding DNA sequence

Examples of noncoding in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With this expansive data set, the team trained deep-learning models to read long strings of genetic code and predict how noncoding sequence variants—hard-to-read chunks of DNA that don’t contain instructions for specific proteins—shape cell identity. —Celia Ford, WIRED, 12 Oct. 2023

This involves removing the noncoding sequences that interrupt genes and splicing the genetic material back together. —Joel Richter, The Conversation, 26 July 2023

The short of it is that there are strong suspicions that some noncoding regions of the genome may regulate coding regions, and so be functionally very significant, even if indirectly. —Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011

Consistent with our hypothesis, many genes involved in reproduction show human acceleration in their coding or adjacent noncoding regions. —Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011

Eventually the authors focus on a set of markers in a noncoding region which define a genomic block in linkage disequilibrium. —Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011

The team also looked at noncoding regions of genes, sequences with regulatory or other functions that make up the vast majority of DNA. —Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018

Now, the Princeton team is running the genomes of autism patients through DeepSEA, hoping to rank the impacts of noncoding bases. —Science News Staff, Science | AAAS, 5 July 2017

Word History

First Known Use

1962, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

noncoding

adjective

non·​cod·​ing (ˈ)nän-ˈkōd-iŋ 

: not specifying the genetic code

noncoding introns