Publications
2018 |
Lopez-Fernandez, A.; Rodríguez-Baena, D.; Gómez-Vela, F.; Díaz-Díaz, N. BIGO: A web application to analyse gene enrichment analysis results Journal Article In: Computational biology and chemistry, vol. 76, pp. 169-178, 2018, ISSN: 1476-9271. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Bioinformatics, Biological validation, Gene enrichment analysis @article{Lopez-Fernandez2018, Background and objective Gene enrichment tools enable the analysis of the relationships between genes with biological annotations stored in biological databases. The results obtained by these tools are usually difficult to analyse. Therefore, researchers require new tools with friendly user interfaces available on all types of devices and new methods to make the analysis of the results easier. Methods In this work, we present the BIGO Web tool. BIGO is a friendly Web tool to perform enrichment analyses of a collection of gene sets. On the basis of the obtained enrichment analysis results, BIGO combines the biological terms to organize them and graphically represents the relationships between gene sets to make the interpretations of the results easier. Results BIGO offers useful services that provide the opportunity to focus on a concrete subset of results by discarding too general biological terms or to obtain useful knowledge by means of the visual analysis of the functional connections between the sets of genes being analysed. Conclusions BIGO is a web tool with a novel and modern design that provides the possibility to improve the analysis tasks applied to gene enrichment results. |
2013 |
Díaz-Díaz, N. Genes functional coherence based on actual biological knowledge Journal Article In: AI Communications, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 247-249, 2013. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Biological validation, Gene enrichment analysis @article{Díaz-Díaz2013, This work proposes two new approaches to establish the quality of genetic model based on current biological knowledge. First, it is developed a KEGG-based tool that provides a friendly graphical environment to analyze gene-enrichment. Moreover, a novel GO-based dissimilarity measure is proposed for evaluating groups of genes based on the most relevant functions of the whole set. To found this function, an heuristic approach based on Voronoi diagram has been presented. |