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eigen- +‎ peptide

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eigenpeptide (plural eigenpeptides)

  1. (biochemistry) Any of the resultant eigenvectors produced by a principle component analysis of peptide data.
    • 2017, Proteomics in Biology, Part A, page 146:
      To identify modules that are significantly associated with the biofuels treated traits, 16 eigenpeptides of modules were correlated with external traits.