accession number

English

Noun

accession number (plural accession numbers)

  1. The unique number given to each new acquisition as it is entered into the catalogue of a library or museum.
  2. (bioinformatics) A unique identifier given to a biological polymer sequence (DNA, protein) when it is submitted to a sequence database.
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