What is Meta-Feature

The prefix ‘meta’ is of Greek origin and means ‘among’, ‘after’, ‘beside’ or ‘with’. As prefix it is often used to identify something that provides information about something else. A metagene, for example, can serve as surrogate for a number of ‘real’ single genes showing similar expression patterns. The term ‘meta-feature’ thus generalizes this view by defining a feature as representative for a set of single features.

Analysis of Large-Scale OMIC Data Using Self Organizing Maps

Hans Binder (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Germany) and Henry Wirth (Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, University of Leipzig, Germany)