Ontologies in biology: design, applications and future challenges

JBL Bard, SY Rhee - nature reviews genetics, 2004 - nature.com
Biological knowledge is inherently complex and so cannot readily be integrated into existing
databases of molecular (for example, sequence) data. An ontology is a formal way of …

Integrative analysis of the cancer transcriptome

DR Rhodes, AM Chinnaiyan - Nature genetics, 2005 - nature.com
DNA microarrays have been widely applied to the study of human cancer, delineating
myriad molecular subtypes of cancer, many of which are associated with distinct biological …

agriGO: a GO analysis toolkit for the agricultural community

Z Du, X Zhou, Y Ling, Z Zhang, Z Su - Nucleic acids research, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Gene Ontology (GO), the de facto standard in gene functionality description, is used widely
in functional annotation and enrichment analysis. Here, we introduce agriGO, an integrated …

[HTML][HTML] Enrichment map: a network-based method for gene-set enrichment visualization and interpretation

D Merico, R Isserlin, O Stueker, A Emili, GD Bader - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Gene-set enrichment analysis is a useful technique to help functionally
characterize large gene lists, such as the results of gene expression experiments. This …

Automated genome annotation and pathway identification using the KEGG Orthology (KO) as a controlled vocabulary

X Mao, T Cai, JG Olyarchuk, L Wei - Bioinformatics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: High-throughput technologies such as DNA sequencing and microarrays have
created the need for automated annotation of large sets of genes, including whole genomes …

[HTML][HTML] The DAVID Gene Functional Classification Tool: a novel biological module-centric algorithm to functionally analyze large gene lists

DW Huang, BT Sherman, Q Tan, JR Collins, WG Alvord… - Genome biology, 2007 - Springer
Abstract The DAVID Gene Functional Classification Tool http://david. abcc. ncifcrf. gov uses
a novel agglomeration algorithm to condense a list of genes or associated biological terms …

DAVID Bioinformatics Resources: expanded annotation database and novel algorithms to better extract biology from large gene lists

DW Huang, BT Sherman, Q Tan, J Kir, D Liu… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
All tools in the DAVID Bioinformatics Resources aim to provide functional interpretation of
large lists of genes derived from genomic studies. The newly updated DAVID Bioinformatics …

GO:: TermFinder—open source software for accessing Gene Ontology information and finding significantly enriched Gene Ontology terms associated with a list of …

EI Boyle, S Weng, J Gollub, H Jin, D Botstein… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
GO:: TermFinder comprises a set of object-oriented Perl modules for accessing Gene
Ontology (GO) information and evaluating and visualizing the collective annotation of a list of …

g: Profiler—a web-based toolset for functional profiling of gene lists from large-scale experiments

J Reimand, M Kull, H Peterson, J Hansen… - Nucleic acids …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Abstract g: Profiler (http://biit. cs. ut. ee/gprofiler/) is a public web server for characterising
and manipulating gene lists resulting from mining high-throughput genomic data. g: Profiler …

Sparse non-negative matrix factorizations via alternating non-negativity-constrained least squares for microarray data analysis

H Kim, H Park - Bioinformatics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Many practical pattern recognition problems require non-negativity constraints.
For example, pixels in digital images and chemical concentrations in bioinformatics are non …