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Gene set analysis: limitations in popular existing methods and proposed improvements
Author(s) -
Pashupati P. Mishra,
Petri Törönen,
Yrjö Leino,
Liisa Holm
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu374
Subject(s) - permutation (music) , set (abstract data type) , function (biology) , value (mathematics) , computer science , asymptotic analysis , mathematics , statistics , algorithm , biology , genetics , physics , acoustics , programming language
Gene set analysis is the analysis of a set of genes that collectively contribute to a biological process. Most popular gene set analysis methods are based on empirical P-value that requires large number of permutations. Despite numerous gene set analysis methods developed in the past decade, the most popular methods still suffer from serious limitations.

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