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http://geneontology.org/docs/tools-overview/

Collection of tools developed by GO Consortium and by third parties. Tools are listed by category or alphabetically and continue to be improved and expanded.

Proper citation: Gene Ontology Tools (RRID:SCR_006941) Copy   

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http://vortex.cs.wayne.edu/projects.htm#Onto-Express

The typical result of a microarray experiment is a list of tens or hundreds of genes found to be differentially regulated in the condition under study. Independently of the methods used to select these genes, the common task faced by any researcher is to translate these lists of genes into a better understanding of the biological phenomena involved. Currently, this is done through a tedious combination of searches through the literature and a number of public databases. We developed Onto-Express (OE) as a novel tool able to automatically translate such lists of differentially regulated genes into functional profiles characterizing the impact of the condition studied. OE constructs functional profiles (using Gene Ontology terms) for the following categories: biochemical function, biological process, cellular role, cellular component, molecular function and chromosome location. Statistical significance values are calculated for each category. We demonstrated the validity and the utility of this comprehensive global analysis of gene function by analyzing two breast cancer data sets from two separate laboratories. OE was able to identify correctly all biological processes postulated by the original authors, as well as discover novel relevant mechanisms (Draghici et.al, Genomics, 81(2), 2003). Other results obtained with Onto-Express can be found in Khatri et.al., Genomics. 79(2), 2002. Custom level of abstraction of the Gene Ontology. User account required. Platform: Online tool

Proper citation: Onto-Express (RRID:SCR_005670) Copy   

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http://www.genetools.us

Web-service providing access to database that brings together information from broad range of resources. Web application for functional annotation and statistical hypothesis testing. Provides tools for analysis of genomic and microarray data. Collection of tools include Bibliographic Information,Databases,Gene Annotation,Gene Regulation, Microarray,Proteins,Sequence Manipulation - Nucleic Acids,Sequence Manipulation - Protein, Systems Biology.

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http://basalganglia.huji.ac.il/links.htm

GOdist is a Matlab program that analyzes Affymetrix microarray expression data implementing Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) continuous statistics approach. It also implements the discrete approach using Fisher exact test employing a two-tailed hypergeometric distribution. GOdist enables detection of both kinds of changes within specific GO terms represented on the array in relation to different populations: the global array population, the direct parents of the analyzed GO term and the global parent of it (e.g. biological process, molecular function or cellular component). Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://compbio.charite.de/contao/index.php/ontologizer2.html

The Ontologizer is a Java webstart application for GO term enrichment analysis that provides browsing and graph visualization capabilities. The Ontologizer allows users to analyze data with the standard Fisher exact test and also the parent-child method and topology methods. The tool can be started directly from the web using Java webstart. For graph visualizations, users need to install the GraphViz library. The tool is freely available to all, and source code is available at SourceForge. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: Ontologizer (RRID:SCR_005801) Copy   

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http://thea.unice.fr/index-en.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE, on documented July 16, 2012. An integrated information processing system dedicated to the analysis of post-genomic data. It allows automatic annotation of data issued from classification systems with selected biological information (including the Gene Ontology). Users can either manually search and browse through these annotations, or automatically generate meaningful generalizations according to statistical criteria (data mining). Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: THEA - Tools for High-throughput Experiments Analysis (RRID:SCR_005802) Copy   

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http://www.genmapp.org/help_v2/UsingMAPPFinder.htm

MAPPFinder is an accessory program for GenMAPP. This program allows users to query any existing GenMAPP Expression Dataset Criterion against GO gene associations and GenMAPP MAPPs (microarray pathway profiles). The resulting analysis provides the user with results that can be viewed directly upon the Gene Ontology hierarchy and within GenMAPP, by selecting terms or MAPPs of interest. Platform: Windows compatible

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http://g2im.u-clermont1.fr/serimour/goarrays.html

GOArray is a Perl program which inputs a lists of genes annotated as of interest (GOI) or not, and determines if any associated GO terms have an overrepresentation of GOI. A permutation test is optionally used to assess confidence in the results. Output includes multiple visualizations and supplementary information and, for future reference, a summary of the statistical methods used. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://www.psb.ugent.be/cbd/papers/BiNGO/Home.html

The Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool (BiNGO) is an open-source Java tool to determine which Gene Ontology (GO) terms are significantly overrepresented in a set of genes. BiNGO can be used either on a list of genes, pasted as text, or interactively on subgraphs of biological networks visualized in Cytoscape. BiNGO maps the predominant functional themes of the tested gene set on the GO hierarchy, and takes advantage of Cytoscape''''s versatile visualization environment to produce an intuitive and customizable visual representation of the results. Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: BiNGO: A Biological Networks Gene Ontology tool (RRID:SCR_005736) Copy   

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http://bioinformatics.ubc.ca/ermineJ/

Data analysis software for gene sets in expression microarray data or other genome-wide data that results in rankings of genes. A typical goal is to determine whether particular biological pathways are doing something interesting in the data. The software is designed to be used by biologists with little or no informatics background. A command-line interface is available for users who wish to script the use of ermineJ. Major features include: * Implementation of multiple methods for gene set analysis: ** Over-representation analysis ** A resampling-based method that uses gene scores ** A rank-based method that uses gene scores ** A resampling-based method that uses correlation between gene expression profiles (a type of cluster-enrichment analysis). * Gene sets receive statistical scores (p-values), and multiple test correction is supported. * Support of the Gene Ontology terminology; users can choose which aspects to analyze. * User files use simple text formats. * Users can modify gene sets or create new ones. * The results can be visualized within the software. * It is simple to compare multiple analyses of the same data set with different settings. * User-definable hyperlinks are provided to external sites to allow more efficient browsing of the results. * For programmers, there is a command line interface as well as a simple application programming interface that can be used to plug ermineJ functionality into your own code Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: ErmineJ (RRID:SCR_006450) Copy   

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http://www.webgestalt.org/

Web based gene set analysis toolkit designed for functional genomic, proteomic, and large-scale genetic studies from which large number of gene lists (e.g. differentially expressed gene sets, co-expressed gene sets etc) are continuously generated. WebGestalt incorporates information from different public resources and provides a way for biologists to make sense out of gene lists. This version of WebGestalt supports eight organisms, including human, mouse, rat, worm, fly, yeast, dog, and zebrafish.

Proper citation: WebGestalt: WEB-based GEne SeT AnaLysis Toolkit (RRID:SCR_006786) Copy   

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http://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler/

Web server for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists. Web based tool for functional profiling of gene lists from large scale experiments. Has web interface with powerful visualization. Used for analyzing data from any organism.

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http://www.funnet.info/

Functional Analysis of Transcriptional Networks (FunNet) is designed as an integrative tool for analyzing gene co-expression networks built from microarray expression data. The analytical model implemented in this tool involves two abstraction layers: transcriptional (i.e. gene expression profiles) and functional (i.e. biological themes indicating the roles of the analyzed transcripts). A functional analysis technique, which relies on Gene Ontology and KEGG annotations, is applied to extract a list of relevant biological themes from microarray gene expression data. Afterwards multiple-instance representations are built to relate relevant biological themes to their annotated transcripts. An original non-linear dynamical model is used to quantify the contextual proximity of relevant genomic themes based on their patterns of propagation in the gene co-expression network (i.e. capturing the similarity of the expression profiles of the transcriptional instances of annotating themes). In the end an unsupervised multiple-instance spectral clustering procedure is used to explore the modular architecture of the co-expression network by grouping together biological themes demonstrating a significant relationship in the co-expression network. Functional and transcriptional representations of the co-expression network are provided, together with detailed information on the contextual centrality of related transcripts and genomic themes. FunNet is provided both as a web-based tool and as a standalone R package. The standalone R implementation can be run on any operating system for which an R environment implementation is available (Windows, Mac OS, various flavors of Linux and Unix) and can be downloaded from the FunNet website, or from the worldwide mirrors of CRAN. Both implementations of the FunNet tool are provided freely under the GNU General Public License 2.0. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

Proper citation: FunNet - Transcriptional Networks Analysis (RRID:SCR_006968) Copy   

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http://bioinfo.cau.edu.cn/agriGO/

A web-based tool and database for the gene ontology analysis. Its focus is on agricultural species and is user-friendly. The agriGO is designed to provide deep support to agricultural community in the realm of ontology analysis. Compared to other available GO analysis tools, unique advantages and features of agriGO are: # The agriGO especially focuses on agricultural species. It supports 45 species and 292 datatypes currently. And agriGO is designed as an user-friendly web server. # New tools including PAGE (Parametric Analysis of Gene set Enrichment), BLAST4ID (Transfer IDs by BLAST) and SEACOMPARE (Cross comparison of SEA) were developed. The arrival of these tools provides users with possibilities for data mining and systematic result exploration and will allow better data analysis and interpretation. # The exploratory capability and result visualization are enhanced. Results are provided in different formats: HTML tables, tabulated text files, hierarchical tree graphs, and flash bar graphs. # In agriGO, PAGE and SEACOMPARE can be used to carry out cross-comparisons of results derived from different data sets, which is very important when studying multiple groups of experiments, such as in time-course research. Platform: Online tool, THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

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http://www.grissom.gr/stranger/

StRAnGER (Statistical Ranking of ANotated Genomic Experimental Results) is a web application for the automated statistical analysis of annotated gene profiling experiments, exploiting controlled biological vocabularies, like the Gene Ontology or the KEGG pathways terms. Starting from annotated lists of differentially expressed genes StRAnGER repartitions and reorders the initial distribution of terms to define a new distribution of elements where each element pools terms holding the same enrichment score. The elements are then prioritized according to StRAnGER''''s algorithm and, by applying bootstrapping techniques, a corrected measure of the statistical significance of these elements is derived, enabling the selection of terms mapped to these elements, unambiguously associated with respective significant gene sets. Besides their high statistical score, another selection criterion for the terms is the number of their members, something that incurs a biological prioritization in line with a Systems Biology context. Platform: Online tool

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http://spotfire.tibco.com/

The Spotfire Gene Ontology Advantage Application integrates GO annotations with gene expression analysis in Spotfire DecisionSite for Functional Genomics. Researchers can select a subset of genes in DecisionSite visualizations and display their distribution in the Gene Ontology hierarchy. Similarly, selection of any process, function or cellular location in the Gene Ontology hierarchy automatically marks the corresponding genes in DecisionSite visualizations. Platform: Windows compatible

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http://genecodis.cnb.csic.es/

Web-based tool for the ontological analysis of large lists of genes. It can be used to determine biological annotations or combinations of annotations that are significantly associated to a list of genes under study with respect to a reference list. As well as single annotations, this tool allows users to simultaneously evaluate annotations from different sources, for example Biological Process and Cellular Component categories of Gene Ontology., THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE. Documented on September 16,2025.

Proper citation: GeneCodis (RRID:SCR_006943) Copy   

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http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/hartl/old_site/lab/publications/GeneMerge.html

THIS RESOURCE IS NO LONGER IN SERVCE, documented September 2, 2016. Web-based and standalone application that returns a wide range of functional genomic data for a given set of study genes and provides rank scores for over-representation of particular functions or categories in the data. It uses the hypergeometric test statistic which returns statistically correct results for samples of all sizes and is the #2 fastest GO tool available (Khatri and Draghici, 2005). GeneMerge can be used with any discrete, locus-based annotation data, including, literature references, genetic interactions, mutant phenotypes as well as traditional Gene Ontology queries. GeneMerge is particularly useful for the analysis of microarray data and other large biological datasets. The big advantage of GeneMerge over other similar programs is that you are not limited to analyzing your data from the perspective of a pre-packaged set of gene-association data. You can download or create gene-association files to analyze your data from an unlimited number of perspectives. Platform: Online tool, Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jernst/stem/

The Short Time-series Expression Miner (STEM) is a Java program for clustering, comparing, and visualizing short time series gene expression data from microarray experiments (~8 time points or fewer). STEM allows researchers to identify significant temporal expression profiles and the genes associated with these profiles and to compare the behavior of these genes across multiple conditions. STEM is fully integrated with the Gene Ontology (GO) database supporting GO category gene enrichment analyses for sets of genes having the same temporal expression pattern. STEM also supports the ability to easily determine and visualize the behavior of genes belonging to a given GO category or user defined gene set, identifying which temporal expression profiles were enriched for these genes. (Note: While STEM is designed primarily to analyze data from short time course experiments it can be used to analyze data from any small set of experiments which can naturally be ordered sequentially including dose response experiments.) Platform: Windows compatible, Mac OS X compatible, Linux compatible, Unix compatible

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http://david.abcc.ncifcrf.gov/content.jsp?file=/ease/ease1.htm&type=1

Windows(c) desktop software application, customizable and standalone, that facilitates the biological interpretation of gene lists derived from the results of microarray, proteomic, and SAGE experiments. Provides statistical methods for discovering enriched biological themes within gene lists, generates gene annotation tables, and enables automated linking to online analysis tools. Offers statistical models to deal with multi-test comparison problem. Platform: Windows compatible

Proper citation: EASE: the Expression Analysis Systematic Explorer (RRID:SCR_013361) Copy   

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