TSGOE: A web tool for tissue-specific gene ontology enrichment

Jiajie Peng, Guilin Lu, Hansheng Xue, Tao Wang, Xuequn Shang

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Abstract

Gene Ontology (GO) is one of the most popular Bioinformatics resources for studying the functional relationships between genes. GO enrichment analysis has become a routine method for gene function analysis, and it is of great significance for revealing the molecular mechanism of biology. However, existing GO enrichment analysis tools do not take into account tissue specificity and cannot distinguish gene sets that users interested. In this paper, we propose an easy-to-use web application, termed as TSGOE, which allows users to perform tissue specific-based GO enrichment analysis conveniently. Besides, TSGOE also provides rigorous statistical testing to improve the reliability of analytical result. To evaluate its performance, we apply TSGOE on several cancer-related gene lists. The experimental results show that our tool perform better than traditional GO enrichment analysis method. TSGOE is available at http://120.77.47.2:5678.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2018
EditorsHarald Schmidt, David Griol, Haiying Wang, Jan Baumbach, Huiru Zheng, Zoraida Callejas, Xiaohua Hu, Julie Dickerson, Le Zhang
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1266-1269
Number of pages4
ISBN (Electronic)9781538654880
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Jan 2019
Event2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2018 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: 3 Dec 20186 Dec 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, BIBM 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period3/12/186/12/18

Keywords

  • enrichment analysis
  • Gene Ontology
  • tissue-specific
  • web tool

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