vissE: a versatile tool to identify and visualise higher-order molecular phenotypes from functional enrichment analysis

Autor: Dharmesh D. Bhuva, Chin Wee Tan, Ning Liu, Holly J. Whitfield, Nicholas Papachristos, Samuel C. Lee, Malvika Kharbanda, Ahmed Mohamed, Melissa J. Davis
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: BMC Bioinformatics, Vol 25, Iss 1, Pp 1-22 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1471-2105
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-024-05676-y
Popis: Abstract Functional analysis of high throughput experiments using pathway analysis is now ubiquitous. Though powerful, these methods often produce thousands of redundant results owing to knowledgebase redundancies upstream. This scale of results hinders extensive exploration by biologists and can lead to investigator biases due to previous knowledge and expectations. To address this issue, we present vissE, a flexible network-based analysis and visualisation tool that organises information into semantic categories and provides various visualisation modules to characterise them with respect to the underlying data, thus providing a comprehensive view of the biological system. We demonstrate vissE’s versatility by applying it to three different technologies: bulk, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. Applying vissE to a factor analysis of a breast cancer spatial transcriptomic data, we identified stromal phenotypes that support tumour dissemination. Its adaptability allows vissE to enhance all existing gene-set enrichment and pathway analysis workflows, empowering biologists during molecular discovery.
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