Definition of ghost band in English English dictionary
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
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)
Impersonators of a well-known band hired to perform while the real band members are elsewhere