CoExpNetViz: Comparative Co-Expression Networks Construction and Visualization Tool.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Comparative transcriptomics is a common approach in functional gene discovery efforts. It allows for finding conserved co-expression patterns between orthologous genes in closely related plant species, suggesting that these genes potentially share similar function and regulation. Several efficient co-expression-based tools have been commonly used in plant research but most of these pipelines are limited to data from model systems, which greatly limit their utility. Moreover, in addition, none of the existing pipelines allow plant researchers to make use of their own unpublished gene expression data for performing a comparative co-expression analysis and generate multi-species co-expression networks.

Results

We introduce CoExpNetViz, a computational tool that uses

SUBMITTER: Tzfadia O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4700130 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature