Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eigengene

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: eigen-gene
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of a set of right singular vectors of a genes x samples matrix that tabulates, e.g., the mRNA or gene expression of the genes across the samples.

Example Sentences

"1999, Orly Alter et al., ‘‘Singular Value Decomposition for Gene Expression Data Processing and Modeling.’’ In: After the Genome V (October 6–10, 1999, Jackson Hole, WY), published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). We describe the use of singular value decomposition in transforming gene expression data from genes/arrays space to ‘‘eigengenes’’/‘‘eigenarrays’’ space, where the eigengenes and eigenarrays are unique orthonormal superpositions of the genes and arrays, respectively."

Etymology

From eigen- + gene.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: eigen

Inflected Forms

eigengenes (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

eigengenome eigenstate

Questions

What does eigengene mean?: One of a set of right singular vectors of a genes x samples matrix that tabulates, e.g., the mRNA or gene expression of the genes across the samples.
Where does eigengene come from?: From eigen- + gene.

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