Definition for Cosmid
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A cosmid, first described by Collins and Hohn in 1978, is a type of hybrid plasmid (often used as a cloning vector) that contains a Lambda phage cos sequence. Cosmids' (cos sites + plasmid = cosmid) DNA sequences are originally from the lambda phage. Cosmids can be used to build genomic libraries.