Title
TAPPA: topological analysis of pathway phenotype association.
Abstract
Summary: Extracting biological insight from microarray data is important but challenging. Here we describe TAPPA, a java-based tool, for identification of phenotype-associated genetic pathways utilizing the pathway topological measures. This is achieved by first calculating a Pathway Connectivity Index (PCI) for each pathway, followed by evaluating its correlation to the phenotypic variation. Our PCI definition not only efficiently captures the contributions from genes that show subtle but consistent changes in expression, but also naturally overweighs the hub genes that interact with a large number of other genes in the pathway. TAPPA also allows evaluation of sub-modules within a pathway and their association to phenotypes. Availability: TAPPA and data for Figure 1 are freely available from http://watson.mcgee.mcw.edu:8080/similar to sgao Contact: sgao@mcw.edu Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm460
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
associate editor: olga troyanskaya,genetics,indexation,microarray data
Topology,Gene,Phenotype,Biology,Proteome,Microarray analysis techniques,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Topological index,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
22
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
12
0.78
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shouguo Gao1502.65
Xujing Wang2908.54