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    Bioinformatics. 2004 Nov 1;20(16):2618-25. Epub 2004 May 6.

    GO-Mapper: functional analysis of gene expression data using the expression level as a score to evaluate Gene Ontology terms.

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    Department of Pathology, Josephine Nefkens Institute, Erasmus MC, P.O. Box 1738, 3000DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

    Abstract

    MOTIVATION:

    Retrieval of information on biological processes from large-scale expression data is still a time-consuming task. An automated analysis utilizing all expression information would greatly increase our understanding of the samples under study.

    RESULTS:

    We describe here a novel method to obtain a functional analysis of complex gene expression data. Instead of applying a predefined expression threshold, Gene Ontology (GO) terms are weighted using the actual measured levels of expression of all associated genes. Based on this concept, the application GO-Mapper was developed to quantitatively link gene expression levels to GO-terms for multiple experiments in an automated way. The applicability of GO-Mapper was developed and validated on in house and public human microarray data and mouse SAGE data. We demonstrate that the GO-Mapper allows for interrelating relevant biological functions with the experiments under study.

    AVAILABILITY:

    The GO-Mapper application is free of charge available from our website.

    PMID:
    15130934
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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