This article is part of the supplement: EADGENE and SABRE Post-analyses Workshop
Research
Gene set analysis methods applied to chicken microarray expression data
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* Corresponding author: Peter Sørensen Peter.Sorensen2@agrsci.dk
Department of Genetics and Biotechnology, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus University, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
BMC Proceedings 2009, 3(Suppl 4):S8 doi:10.1186/1753-6561-3-S4-S8
Published: 16 July 2009Abstract
Background
Gene set analysis is considered to be a way of improving our biological interpretation of the observed expression patterns. This paper describes different methods applied to analyse expression data from a chicken DNA microarray dataset.
Results
Applying different gene set analyses to the chicken expression data led to different ranking of the Gene Ontology terms tested. A method for prediction of possible annotations was applied.
Conclusion
Biological interpretation based on gene set analyses dependent on the statistical method used. Methods for predicting the possible annotations for genes with unknown function from the expression data at hand could be useful, but our results indicate that careful validation of the predictions is needed.