Mbps

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Mbps (plural Mbps)

  1. (computing) megabit per second, a measure of data transfer rate
  2. (genetics) million base pairs
    • 2014, Alison Snape, Despo Papachristodoulou, William H. Elliott, Daphne C. Elliott, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 5th ed., Oxford University Press (→ISBN), page 343:
      The main chromosome in E coli[sic] is 4.6 million base pairs (4.6 Mbps) in length, ...
    • 1999, Proceedings of the ... Annual International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology: RECOMB
      Firstly, the set of mouse EST sequences having no homology to known mouse mRNAs was used (198323 sequences, 75.2 Million base pairs (Mbps)).
    • 1993, Journal of Fermentation and Bioengineering
      The total size of the C. ellipsoidea chromosomes is supposed to be about 40 mega base pairs (Mbps) (7).

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