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ArticleBMC genomics2018

funcExplorer: a tool for fast data-driven functional characterisation of high-throughput expression data.

Liis Kolberg, Ivan Kuzmin, Priit Adler, Jaak Vilo, Hedi Peterson

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Article in BMC genomics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Liis KolbergInstitute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 2, Tartu, Estonia.
Ivan KuzminInstitute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 2, Tartu, Estonia.
Priit AdlerInstitute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 2, Tartu, Estonia.
Jaak ViloInstitute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 2, Tartu, Estonia.
Hedi PetersonInstitute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Juhan Liivi 2, Tartu, Estonia. hedi.peterson@ut.ee.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-5116

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Eesti Teadusagentuur PSG59Eesti Teadusagentuur (EE) IUT34-4European Regional Development Fund EXCITEEuropean Union through the Structural Fund No 2014-2020.4.01.16-0271, ELIXIR)
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Abstract

backgroundA widely applied approach to extract knowledge from high-throughput genomic data is clustering of gene expression profiles followed by functional enrichment analysis. This type of analysis, when done manually, is highly subjective and has limited reproducibility. Moreover, this pipeline can be very time-consuming and resource-demanding as enrichment analysis is done for tens to hundreds of clusters at a time. Thus, the task often needs programming skills to form a pipeline of different software tools or R packages to enable an automated approach. Furthermore, visualising the results can be challenging.

resultsWe developed a web tool, funcExplorer, which automatically combines hierarchical clustering and enrichment analysis to detect functionally related gene clusters. The functional characterisation is achieved using structured knowledge from data sources such as Gene Ontology, KEGG and Reactome pathways, Human Protein Atlas, and Human Phenotype Ontology. funcExplorer includes various measures for finding biologically meaningful clusters, provides a modern graphical user interface, and has wide-ranging data export and sharing options as well as software transparency by open-source code. The results are presented in a visually compact and interactive format, enabling users to explore the biological essence of the data. We compared our results with previously published gene clusters to demonstrate that funcExplorer can perform the data characterisation equally well, but without requiring labour-intensive manual interference.

conclusionsThe open-source web tool funcExplorer enables scientists with high-throughput genomic data to obtain a preliminary interactive overview of the expression patterns, gene names, and shared functionalities in their dataset in a visually pleasing format. funcExplorer is publicly available at https://biit.cs.ut.ee/funcexplorer.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksSoftwareTranscriptomeCluster AnalysisGenomicsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansProteomicsUser-Computer InterfaceData-drivenfuncExplorerFunctional enrichment analysisGene expressionGlobal visualisationHierarchical clusteringMicroarrayProtoarrayRNA-seq

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PMCPMC6236982

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