Title
Model-based gene set analysis for Bioconductor.
Abstract
Gene Ontology and other forms of gene-category analysis play a major role in the evaluation of high-throughput experiments in molecular biology. Single-category enrichment analysis procedures such as Fisher's exact test tend to flag large numbers of redundant categories as significant, which can complicate interpretation. We have recently developed an approach called model-based gene set analysis (MGSA), that substantially reduces the number of redundant categories returned by the gene-category analysis. In this work, we present the Bioconductor package mgsa, which makes the MGSA algorithm available to users of the R language. Our package provides a simple and flexible application programming interface for applying the approach.The mgsa package has been made available as part of Bioconductor 2.8. It is released under the conditions of the Artistic license 2.0.peter.robinson@charite.de; julien.gagneur@embl.de.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1093/bioinformatics/btr296
Bioinformatics [ISMB/ECCB]
Keywords
Field
DocType
single-category enrichment analysis procedure,artistic license,gene-category analysis,redundant category,exact test,model-based gene set analysis,gene ontology,bioconductor package mgsa,mgsa package,r language,algorithms,programming languages,gene expression profiling
Data mining,Computer science,Gene ontology,Bioconductor,Software,Application programming interface,Bioinformatics,Gene set analysis,R language,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
13
1367-4811
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.59
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sebastian Bauer160.59
Peter N Robinson246041.33
Julien Gagneur312513.93