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ArticleJournal of integrative bioinformatics2024

TidyGEO: preparing analysis-ready datasets from Gene Expression Omnibus.

Avery Mecham, Ashlie Stephenson, Badi I Quinteros, Grace S Brown, Stephen R Piccolo

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Article in Journal of integrative bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Avery MechamDepartment of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
Ashlie StephensonDepartment of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
Badi I QuinterosDepartment of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
Grace S BrownDepartment of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.
Stephen R PiccoloDepartment of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 84602, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2001-5640

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TidyGEO is a Web-based tool for downloading, tidying, and reformatting data series from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). As a freely accessible repository with data from over 6 million biological samples across more than 4000 organisms, GEO provides diverse opportunities for secondary research. Although scientists may find assay data relevant to a given research question, most analyses require sample-level annotations. In GEO, such annotations are stored alongside assay data in delimited, text-based files. However, the structure and semantics of the annotations vary widely from one series to another, and many annotations are not useful for analysis purposes. Thus, every GEO series must be tidied before it is analyzed. Manual approaches may be used, but these are error prone and take time away from other research tasks. Custom computer scripts can be written, but many scientists lack the computational expertise to create such scripts. To address these challenges, we created TidyGEO, which supports essential data-cleaning tasks for sample-level annotations, such as selecting informative columns, renaming columns, splitting or merging columns, standardizing data values, and filtering samples. Additionally, users can integrate annotations with assay data, restructure assay data, and generate code that enables others to reproduce these steps.

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Databases, GeneticSoftwareComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingHumansdata cleaningdata wranglinggene-expression analysisinteractive curationweb application

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PMID38047898
PMCPMC11294518

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