Given the phenomenon of gene functional modulization in a cell, the concepts of gene functional module and characteristic functional module were formally defined.

• 针对细胞内基因功能模块化的现象，定义了“基因功能模块”和“特征功能模块”两个概念，并基于这两个概念提出一种“与实验条件相关的基因功能模块聚类算法”。