mirrortree

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mirror +‎ tree

Noun[edit]

mirrortree (countable and uncountable, plural mirrortrees)

  1. (biochemistry) A technique in which a high correlation of evolutionary histories of two proteins is used as an indicator to predict protein interactions; a graphical representation of this
    • 2009, Jake Y. Chen, Stefano Lonardi, Biological Data Mining, page 364:
      In order to reduce the high rate of false positives plaguing the mirrortree method, a novel method TreeSec has been recently developed []