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What is Gene set enrichment?
Enrichment analysis is a technique commonly used to add biological context to a list of genes, such as list of significant genes. The procedure is based on assigning genes to groups and then finding overrepresented groups in filtered gene lists using a Fisher's exact test.
Running Gene set enrichment
We recommend filtering to a set of genes you want to test for enrichment, but Gene set enrichment will run on any Feature list data node.
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By default, the groups are defined by Gene Ontology (GO), a bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across various species [1, 2].
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The result is stored under an Enrichment task node. To open it, double click on the node or select the respective Task report from the context sensitive menu.
Gene set enrichment task report
Figure 4 shows an example Gene set enrichment task report. The table contains one gene set per row (Gene set column; the column entries are hyperlinks when using the distributed GO gene sets), with the category name in the Description column. The categories are ranked by the Enrichment score, which is the negative natural logarithm of the enrichment p-value (P-value column) derived from Fisher's exact test on the underlying contingency table. The higher the enrichment score, the more overrepresented the GO category is within the input list of significant genes. The columns can be searched by typing in the search term in the respective box (and hitting Enter), or sorted by selecting the double arrow icon (
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The contingency table (Figure 5) can be displayed by selecting the View gene breakdown chart icon on the right (
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The View extra details (
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As previously mentioned, if you are using the GO gene sets distributed by Partek, the GO identifiers in the first column are hyperlinks to the Gene Ontology web-site entries (an example shown in Figure 7).
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References
- Ashburner M, Ball CA, Blake JA et al. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology. Nat Genetics. 2000; 25:25-29.
- The Gene Ontology Consortium. Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015; 43:D1049-1056.Recommended citations from the Geneontology.org website
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