GSCALite: a web server for gene set cancer analysis

Bioinformatics. 2018 Nov 1;34(21):3771-3772. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty411.

Abstract

Summary: The availability of cancer genomic data makes it possible to analyze genes related to cancer. Cancer is usually the result of a set of genes and the signal of a single gene could be covered by background noise. Here, we present a web server named Gene Set Cancer Analysis (GSCALite) to analyze a set of genes in cancers with the following functional modules. (i) Differential expression in tumor versus normal, and the survival analysis; (ii) Genomic variations and their survival analysis; (iii) Gene expression associated cancer pathway activity; (iv) miRNA regulatory network for genes; (v) Drug sensitivity for genes; (vi) Normal tissue expression and eQTL for genes. GSCALite is a user-friendly web server for dynamic analysis and visualization of gene set in cancer and drug sensitivity correlation, which will be of broad utilities to cancer researchers.

Availability and implementation: GSCALite is available on http://bioinfo.life.hust.edu.cn/web/GSCALite/.

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computational Biology
  • Computers
  • Genomics
  • Humans
  • Internet*
  • Neoplasms / genetics*
  • Oncogenes*
  • Software*