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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2019

HPAanalyze: an R package that facilitates the retrieval and analysis of the Human Protein Atlas data.

Anh Nhat Tran, Alex M Dussaq, Timothy Kennell, Christopher D Willey, Anita B Hjelmeland

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anh Nhat TranDepartment of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, THT 948, 1900 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA. trannhatanh89@gmail.com.
Alex M DussaqDepartment of Pathology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 121 Shelby Biomedical Research Building, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.
Timothy KennellDepartment of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 121 Shelby Biomedical Research Building, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.
Christopher D WilleyDepartment of Radiation Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 176 Facility Building, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA.
Anita B HjelmelandDepartment of Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, THT 948, 1900 University Blvd, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA. hjelmea@uab.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2200-3248
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Biosynthetic Metabolic Pathway Regulation of Glioma GrowthR01NS104339 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI HJELMELAND, ANITA BORTON · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Identification of Glucose Transporter 3 Inhibitors for Glioblastoma TreatmentR21NS096531 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI AUGELLI-SZAFRAN, CORINNE ELIZABETH, HJELMELAND, ANITA BORTON · 2016 to 2017
$537k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104339NINDS NIH HHS R01NS104339NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS096531NINDS NIH HHS R21NS096531
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe Human Protein Atlas (HPA) aims to map human proteins via multiple technologies including imaging, proteomics and transcriptomics. Access of the HPA data is mainly via web-based interface allowing views of individual proteins, which may not be optimal for data analysis of a gene set, or automatic retrieval of original images.

resultsHPAanalyze is an R package for retrieving and performing exploratory analysis of data from HPA. HPAanalyze provides functionality for importing data tables and xml files from HPA, exporting and visualizing data, as well as downloading all staining images of interest. The package is free, open source, and available via Bioconductor and GitHub. We provide examples of the use of HPAanalyze to investigate proteins altered in the deadly brain tumor glioblastoma. For example, we confirm Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor elevation and Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog loss and suggest the importance of the GTP Cyclohydrolase I/Tetrahydrobiopterin pathway. Additionally, we provide an interactive website for non-programmers to explore and visualize data without the use of R.

conclusionsHPAanalyze integrates into the R workflow with the tidyverse framework, and it can be used in combination with Bioconductor packages for easy analysis of HPA data.

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Data AnalysisInformation Storage and RetrievalSoftwareBrainBrain NeoplasmsGliomaHumansNeoplasm ProteinsNeoplasm ProteinsHuman protein atlasProteomicsSoftwareVisualization

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