What is a Chimera with regards to NGS?

Question

[VBer]

Hello!

I would like to know how a read generated through NGS is termed a 'chimera'. I tried looking at some papers but none of them seems to explain how one is formed in the first place.

Is a chimera a read that is composed of fragments from different chromosomes or simply of non-contiguous parts of the same chromosome?

Thank you.

Answer 1

[benformatics]

Please use the search function: What are chimeric reads?

Also it is spelled chimera in the context of NGS