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

Author

Elizabeth Boyle, Shuai Weng, Jeremy Gollub, Heng Jin, David Botstein, Michael Cherry, Gavin Sherlock

Publication Year

2004

Type

Journal Article

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 Expression Profiling, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis, Programming Languages, Software, User-Computer Interface, Information Storage and Retrieval, Databases, Protein, Database Management Systems, Abstracting and Indexing as Topic, Natural Language Processing, Vocabulary, Controlled

Journal

Bioinformatics

Volume

Issue

Pages

3710-5

Date Published

12/2004

Alternate Journal

Bioinformatics