Meaning

3 senses
  1. Any spurious results clustered together, outside of normal expected ranges (as in a plot of recorded energy values, with an inexplicable blot, marring the clean expected results).

  2. A large band or stripe that appears on a developed gel as a wide halo with no specific, distinguishable signal.

    Ghost bands are a common problem in western blot analysis.

  3. Impersonators of a well-known musical band hired to perform while the real band members are elsewhere.

Forms

plural: ghost bands
Singularghost band
Pluralghost bands

regular

See also

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