Statistical assessment of functional categories of genes deregulated in pathological conditions by using microarray data
Author(s) -
Rosalia Maglietta,
Ada Piepoli,
Domenico Catalano,
Flavio Licciulli,
Massimo Carella,
Sabino Liuni,
Graziano Pesole,
Francesco Perri,
Nicola Ancona
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm289
Subject(s) - univariate , relevance (law) , computer science , data mining , statistical hypothesis testing , identification (biology) , microarray databases , coding (social sciences) , microarray analysis techniques , permutation (music) , computational biology , gene , statistics , biology , mathematics , gene expression , genetics , multivariate statistics , machine learning , botany , physics , political science , acoustics , law
A major challenge in current biomedical research is the identification of cellular processes deregulated in a given pathology through the analysis of gene expression profiles. To this end, predefined lists of genes, coding specific functions, are compared with a list of genes ordered according to their values of differential expression measured by suitable univariate statistics.
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