简介:Expressedsequencetags(ESTs)arewidelyusedingenesurveyresearchtheseyears.TheESTPipelineSystem,softwaredevelopedbyHangzhouGenomicsInstitute(HGI),canautomaticallyanalyzedifferentscalarESTsequencesbysuitablemethods.Alltheanalysisreports,includingthoseofvectormasking,sequenceassembly,geneannotation,GeneOntologyclassification,andsomeotheranalyses,canbebrowsedandsearchedaswellasdownloadedintheExcelformatfromthewebinterface,savingresearcheffortsfromroutinedataprocessingforbiologicalrulesembeddedinthedata.
简介:Computationalanalysisisessentialfortransformingthemassesofmicroarraydataintoamechanisticunderstandingofcancer.Herewepresentamethodforfindinggenefunctionalmodulesofcancerfrommicroarraydataandhaveappliedittocoloncancer.First,acoloncancergenenetworkandanormalcolontissuegenenetworkwereconstructedusingcorrelationsbetweenthegenes.Thenthemodulesthattendedtohaveahomogeneousfunctionalcompositionwereidentifiedbysplit-tingupthenetwork.Analysisofbothnetworksrevealedthattheyarescale-free.Comparisonofthegenefunctionalmodulesforcoloncancerandnormaltissuesshowedthatthemodules’functionschangedwiththeirstructures.