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

Elizabeth I. Boyle; Shuai Weng; Jeremy Gollub; Heng Jin; David Botstein; J. Michael Cherry; Gavin Sherlock

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bth456

Abstract

Abstract Summary: 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 genes to GO terms. It can be used to draw conclusions from microarray and other biological data, calculating the statistical significance of each annotation. GO::TermFinder can be used on any system on which Perl can be run, either as a command line application, in single or batch mode, or as a web-based CGI script. Availability: The full source code and documentation for GO::TermFinder are freely available from http://search.cpan.org/dist/GO-TermFinder/

Keywords

Gene ontologyOntologyComputer scienceSoftwareGeneOpen source softwareOpen sourceWorld Wide WebInformation retrievalComputational biologyBiologyGeneticsProgramming languageGene expression

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Stanford University US

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Year: 2004
Type: article
Volume: 20
Issue: 18
Pages: 3710-3715
Citations: 2109
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                                    Elizabeth I. Boyle, 
                                
                                    Shuai Weng, 
                                
                                    Jeremy Gollub
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2004). 
                            GO::TermFinder—open source software for accessing Gene Ontology information and finding significantly enriched Gene Ontology terms associated with a list of genes. 
                            Bioinformatics
                            , 20
                            (18)
                            , 3710-3715.
                            https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bth456
                        

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DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth456