What is "mappability"?

Question

[mahermassoud]

In the context of single cell sequencing, what does the word "mappability" mean?

Answer 1

[WouterDeCoster]

In the context of any type of sequencing mappability is the chance of finding a unique location for a read. That chance depends on the read length and the repetitiveness of the genome or locus.

Does that clarify it?

[mahermassoud]

yes it does. thanks!