GOTreePlus: an interactive gene ontology browser

Bioinformatics. 2008 Apr 1;24(7):1026-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn068. Epub 2008 Feb 21.

Abstract

We developed an interactive gene ontology (GO) browser named GOTreePlus that superimposes annotation information over GO structures. It can facilitate the identification of important GO terms through interactive visualization of them in the GO structure. The interactive pie chart summarizing an annotation distribution for a selected GO term provides users with a succinct context-sensitive overview of their experimental results. We tested our GOTreePlus using a proteome profiling dataset obtained on differentiation of retinal pigment epithelial cells where 399 proteins were quantified.

Availability: http://bioinformatics.cnmcresearch.org/GOTreePlus/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics*
  • Database Management Systems*
  • Databases, Protein*
  • Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
  • Genes / genetics*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • User-Computer Interface*