pulsed-gel electrophoresis

pulsed-gel electrophoresis

[¦pəlst‚jel ¦‚lek·trə·fə′rē·səs] (cell and molecular biology) A technique in which rare cutting restriction enzymes are used to generate very large fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid (up to 1 million base pairs long), which are separated in gels by applying alternating cycles of electric fields in different directions.