NetAffx Gene Ontology Mining Tool: a visual approach for microarray data analysis

  • Authors:
  • Jill Cheng;Shaw Sun;Adam Tracy;Earl Hubbell;Joseph Morris;Venu Valmeekam;Andrew Kimbrough;Melissa S. Cline;Guoying Liu;Ron Shigeta;David Kulp;Michael A. Siani-Rose

  • Affiliations:
  • Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA;Affymetrix Corporation, Bioinformatics, 6550 Vallejo Street, Suite 100, Emeryville, CA 94608, USA

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Summary: The NetAffx Gene Ontology (GO) Mining Tool is a web-based, interactive tool that permits traversal of the GO graph in the context of microarray data. It accepts a list of Affymetrix probe sets and renders a GO graph as a heat map colored according to significance measurements. The rendered graph is interactive, with nodes linked to public web sites and to lists of the relevant probe sets. The GO Mining Tool provides visualization combining biological annotation with expression data, encompassing thousands of genes in one interactive view. Availability: GO Mining Tool is freely available at http://www.affymetrix.com/analysis/query/go_analysis.affx