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A. This terminology, adopted from the Harvard Institute of Proteomics (HIP), indicates that a stop codon is present (closed) or is absent (fusion) in a cDNA or ORF insert. For more details about these definitions click here. Fusion format clones are useful for producing C-terminally tagged versions of an ORF.
