Summary Visualizations of Gene Ontology Terms With GO-Figure!
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serval:BIB_488C95053B55
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Publications
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Title
Summary Visualizations of Gene Ontology Terms With GO-Figure!
Journal
Frontiers in bioinformatics
ISSN
2673-7647 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
2673-7647
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2021
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
1
Pages
638255
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: epublish
Publication Status: epublish
Abstract
The Gene Ontology (GO) is a cornerstone of functional genomics research that drives discoveries through knowledge-informed computational analysis of biological data from large-scale assays. Key to this success is how the GO can be used to support hypotheses or conclusions about the biology or evolution of a study system by identifying annotated functions that are overrepresented in subsets of genes of interest. Graphical visualizations of such GO term enrichment results are critical to aid interpretation and avoid biases by presenting researchers with intuitive visual data summaries. Amongst current visualization tools and resources there is a lack of standalone open-source software solutions that facilitate explorations of key features of multiple lists of GO terms. To address this we developed GO-Figure!, an open-source Python software for producing user-customisable semantic similarity scatterplots of redundancy-reduced GO term lists. The lists are simplified by grouping together terms with similar functions using their quantified information contents and semantic similarities, with user-control over grouping thresholds. Representatives are then selected for plotting in two-dimensional semantic space where similar terms are placed closer to each other on the scatterplot, with an array of user-customisable graphical attributes. GO-Figure! offers a simple solution for command-line plotting of informative summary visualizations of lists of GO terms, designed to support exploratory data analyses and dataset comparisons.
Keywords
GO term enrichment, functional genomics, python software, redundancy reduction, semantic similarity
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Open Access
Yes
Funding(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation / Careers / PP00P3_170664
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01/04/2021 10:33
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