Integrative Functional Genomics for Systems Genetics in GeneWeaver.org.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

JAX Location

Reprint Collection

JAX Source

Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1488:131-152.

Volume

1488

First Page

131

Last Page

152

ISSN

1940-6029

PMID

27933523

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6427-7_6

Grant

AA18776

Abstract

The abundance of existing functional genomics studies permits an integrative approach to interpreting and resolving the results of diverse systems genetics studies. However, a major challenge lies in assembling and harmonizing heterogeneous data sets across species for facile comparison to the positional candidate genes and coexpression networks that come from systems genetic studies. GeneWeaver is an online database and suite of tools at www.geneweaver.org that allows for fast aggregation and analysis of gene set-centric data. GeneWeaver contains curated experimental data together with resource-level data such as GO annotations, MP annotations, and KEGG pathways, along with persistent stores of user entered data sets. These can be entered directly into GeneWeaver or transferred from widely used resources such as GeneNetwork.org. Data are analyzed using statistical tools and advanced graph algorithms to discover new relations, prioritize candidate genes, and generate function hypotheses. Here we use GeneWeaver to find genes common to multiple gene sets, prioritize candidate genes from a quantitative trait locus, and characterize a set of differentially expressed genes. Coupling a large multispecies repository curated and empirical functional genomics data to fast computational tools allows for the rapid integrative analysis of heterogeneous data for interpreting and extrapolating systems genetics results. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1488:131-152.

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