GenePath: from mutations to genetic networks and back
Author(s) -
Peter Juvan,
Janez Demšar,
Gad Shaulsky,
Blaž Zupan
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/gki426
Subject(s) - biology , dictyostelium discoideum , key (lock) , computational biology , mutation , genetics , mutant , gene , ecology
GenePath is a web-based application for the analysis of mutant-based experiments and synthesis of genetic networks. Here, we introduce GenePath and describe a number of new approaches, including conflict resolution, handling cyclic pathways, confidence level assignment, what-if analysis and new experiment proposal. We illustrate the key concepts using data from a study of adhesion genes in Dictyostelium discoideum and show that GenePath discovered genetic interactions that were ignored in the original publication. GenePath is available at http://www.genepath.org/genepath2.
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