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perturbagen

perturbagen noun: a substance (typically a peptide) designed to disrupt intracellular processes, providing information about the operation of pathways and networks within a cell.

Noun

perturbagen (plural perturbagens)

  1. A substance (typically a peptide) designed to disrupt intracellular processes, providing information about the operation of pathways and networks within a cell.
    • To address this problem, we have previously proposed a parametrization of perturbagen-target systems in which we characterize each system by its responsiveness (the probability that a perturbagen has an effect on a target) and its uniqueness (the probability that a perturbagen or target is...2015 July 9, Maja Temerinac-Ott, Armaghan W Naik, Robert F Murphy, “Deciding when to stop: efficient experimentation to learn to predict drug-target interactions”, in BMC Bioinformatics, volume 16...

Forms of perturbagen

pluralperturbagens

Origin of perturbagen

From perturb + -gen.

Questions about perturbagen

What does perturbagen mean?
Perturbagen means a substance (typically a peptide) designed to disrupt intracellular processes, providing information about the operation of pathways and networks within a cell.
What part of speech is perturbagen?
Perturbagen is a noun.
What is the plural of perturbagen?
The plural of perturbagen is perturbagens.

Words near perturbagen in the dictionary

  1. pertuisan
  2. pertuisans
  3. perturb
  4. perturbability
  5. perturbable
  6. perturbagen
  7. perturbagens
  8. perturbance
  9. perturbances
  10. perturbancies
  11. perturbancy

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