
A comprehensive analysis of enriched functional categories in differentially expressed genes is important to extract the underlying biological processes of genome-wide expression profiles. Moreover, identification of the network of significant functional modules in these dynamic processes is an interesting challenge. This study introduces DynaMod, a web-based application that identifies significant functional modules reflecting the change of modularity and differential expressions that are correlated with gene expression profiles under different conditions. DynaMod allows the inspection of a wide variety of functional modules such as the biological pathways, transcriptional factor-target gene groups, microRNA-target gene groups, protein complexes and hub networks involved in protein interactome. The statistical significance of dynamic functional modularity is scored based on Z-statistics from the average of mutual information (MI) changes of involved gene pairs under different conditions. Significantly correlated gene pairs among the functional modules are used to generate a correlated network of functional categories. In addition to these main goals, this scoring strategy supports better performance to detect significant genes in microarray analyses, as the scores of correlated genes show the superior characteristics of the significance analysis compared with those of individual genes. DynaMod also offers cross-comparison between different analysis outputs. DynaMod is freely accessible at http://piech.kaist.ac.kr/dynamod.
570, Internet, Gene Expression Profiling, 612, Articles, GENE SET ENRICHMENT; INTERACTION DATABASE; UPDATE; PROTEINS; COMPLEX, MicroRNAs, User-Computer Interface, Multiprotein Complexes, Gene Regulatory Networks, Software, Transcription Factors
570, Internet, Gene Expression Profiling, 612, Articles, GENE SET ENRICHMENT; INTERACTION DATABASE; UPDATE; PROTEINS; COMPLEX, MicroRNAs, User-Computer Interface, Multiprotein Complexes, Gene Regulatory Networks, Software, Transcription Factors
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