shotgun sequencing

Etymology
Formed through analogy with the effect of a shotgun blast, which contains many small pellets.

Noun

 * 1)  A DNA sequencing technique in which a large number of small fragments of a long DNA strand are generated at random, sequenced, and reassembled to form a sequence of the original strand.

Translations

 * Chinese: 鸟枪法
 * Korean: 샷건 시퀀싱