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BIGO: A web application to analyse gene enrichment analysis results (http://bigo.cica.es)

Paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S147692711730823X

Abstract

Background and objective

Gene enrichment tools enable the analysis of the relationships between genes with biological annotations stored in biological databases. The results obtained by these tools are usually difficult to analyse. Therefore, researchers require new tools with friendly user interfaces available on all types of devices and new methods to make the analysis of the results easier.

Methods

In this work, we present the BIGO Web tool. BIGO is a friendly Web tool to perform enrichment analyses of a collection of gene sets. On the basis of the obtained enrichment analysis results, BIGO combines the biological terms to organize them and graphically represents the relationships between gene sets to make the interpretations of the results easier.

Results

BIGO offers useful services that provide the opportunity to focus on a concrete subset of results by discarding too general biological terms or to obtain useful knowledge by means of the visual analysis of the functional connections between the sets of genes being analysed.

Conclusions

BIGO is a web tool with a novel and modern design that provides the possibility to improve the analysis tasks applied to gene enrichment results.

biGO execution

  1. This app needs the Gene Ontology annotations files. Download the annotations files from the Gene Ontology website: http://www.geneontology.org/page/download-annotations

  2. Save the annotations files. A new "annotations" folder should be created inside the "web" folder with the GO files.

  3. Run the app!

Authors

Contact

If you have comments or questions, or if you would like to contribute to the further development of biGO, please send us an email at alopfer1@upo.es

License

This projected is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0.