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  • 标题:CEA: Combination-based gene set functional enrichment analysis
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  • 作者:Duanchen Sun ; Yinliang Liu ; Xiang-Sun Zhang
  • 期刊名称:Scientific Reports
  • 电子版ISSN:2045-2322
  • 出版年度:2018
  • 卷号:8
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:13085
  • DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-31396-4
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:Springer Nature
  • 摘要:Functional enrichment analysis is a fundamental and challenging task in bioinformatics. Most of the current enrichment analysis approaches individually evaluate functional terms and often output a list of enriched terms with high similarity and redundancy, which makes it difficult for downstream studies to extract the underlying biological interpretation. In this paper, we proposed a novel framework to assess the performance of combination-based enrichment analysis. Using this framework, we formulated the enrichment analysis as a multi-objective combinatorial optimization problem and developed the CEA (Combination-based Enrichment Analysis) method. CEA provides the whole landscape of term combinations; therefore, it is a good benchmark for evaluating the current state-of-the-art combination-based functional enrichment methods in a comprehensive manner. We tested the effectiveness of CEA on four published microarray datasets. Enriched functional terms identified by CEA not only involve crucial biological processes of related diseases, but also have much less redundancy and can serve as a preferable representation for the enriched terms found by traditional single-term-based methods. CEA has been implemented in the R package CopTea and is available at http://github.com/wulingyun/CopTea/.
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