Title Details: | |
Functional Analysis of Gene Expression |
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Authors: |
Nikolaou, Christoforos Chouvardas, Panagiotis |
Reviewer: |
Bagkos, Panteleimon |
Description: | |
Abstract: |
This chapter serves as a natural continuation of the immediately preceding one, presenting the analysis of gene expression experiments at the functional level. The core biological concepts of this chapter include various types of semantic information organization such as biological ontologies and biological pathways. The focus of the chapter is the real biological problem of identifying differentially regulated biological functions from a gene expression experiment. After introducing the basic mathematical concepts of enrichment and odds ratios, the methodology of functional analysis using the hypergeometric distribution is described. Next, important concepts relevant both to functional analysis and to the study of gene expression more generally are analyzed, including multiple hypothesis testing and the associated corrections of results. In the final part of the chapter, the most important categories of computational methodologies for the functional analysis of gene expression are presented. By the end of this chapter, you should be able to: Retrieve information from the internet about the functions of one or more genes. Identify the biological functions most relevant to a given experiment through analysis of the relative expression levels of genes. Statistically evaluate the results of a functional analysis by performing multiple hypothesis testing corrections.
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Type: |
Chapter |
Creation Date: | 2015 |
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License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/1586 |
Bibliographic Reference: | Nikolaou, C., & Chouvardas, P. (2015). Functional Analysis of Gene Expression [Chapter]. In Nikolaou, C., & Chouvardas, P. 2015. Computational Biology [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/1586 |
Language: |
Greek |
Is Part of: |
Computational Biology |
Number of pages |
30 |
Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |