eigensample

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noun

A set of samples with similar activity for an eigengene.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

nouneigensample (plural eigensamples)

plural eigensamples

  1. biologyA set of samples with similar activity for an eigengene.

    The expression level of every gene in an eigensample is given in matrix U, and the expression level of every eigengene in each sample is given in matrix Vᵀ.

    2007, Marketa Zvelebil, Jeremy Baum, Understanding Bioinformatics, page 633
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    To obtain the eigensamples which contain the characteristic structure of the gene expression data, matrix X is decomposed into W (the product of U and D) and VT by using SVD, where W is the collection of all the eigensamples [8, 15]

    2015, Jian Liu et al., A P-Norm Robust Feature Extraction Method for Identifying Differentially Expressed Genes

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