Efficient generation of biologically relevant enriched gene sets

  • Authors:
  • Igor Trajkovski;Nada Lavraň

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Knowledge Technologies, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Venue:
  • ISBRA'07 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Bioinformatics research and applications
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Gene set enrichment analysis is a microarray data analysis method that uses predefined gene sets and ranks of genes to identify significant biological changes in microarray data sets. In this paper we present a novel method integrating gene interaction information with Gene Ontology (GO) for the construction of new interesting enriched gene sets. The experimental results show that the introduced method improves over traditional methods that compute the enrichment of a single GO terms, i.e. that it is capable to find new statistically relevant descriptions of the biology governing the experiments not detectable by the existing methods.