GeneExpressionSignature: an R package for discovering functional connections using gene expression signatures

OMICS. 2013 Feb;17(2):116-8. doi: 10.1089/omi.2012.0087.

Abstract

Comparisons of gene expression signatures provide a way to explore functional connections among biological events in global aspects of cell response. GeneExpressionSignature is an R package developed for the large-scale analysis of gene expression signatures. The package implements two rank-merging algorithms and two similarity-scoring algorithms. The functions of GeneExpressionSignature provide a flexible solution for gene expression signature-based studies and hold great potential in biomedical research applications, such as drug repurposing. GeneExpressionSignature is released under GPL v2 within the Bioconductor project and is freely available at http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/GeneExpressionSignature.html .

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Cell Line
  • Cluster Analysis
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Gene Expression Profiling*
  • Gene Expression Regulation / drug effects
  • Gene Regulatory Networks
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Software*
  • Transcriptome*