Author Archives: Metascape

How to Adjust Metascape Network Plots?

[This is an old blog written on Saturday, September 15, 2018] Metascape relies on Cytoscape [1] to render networks, including both enrichment networks and protein-protein interaction networks.  When a network contains too many edges, it can become a visual “hair … Continue reading

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Analysis Report Available Offline

[This is an old blog written on Wednesday, January 31, 2018] A major goal of Metascape is to facilitate communication by presenting bioinformatics analysis results in a way that is easily interpretable to biology users.  More specifically, Metascape presents data … Continue reading

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How We Keep Data Fresh?

[This is an old blog written on Thursday, December 14, 2017] We live in a big data era, where biological data and thus knowledge extracted grow rapidly.  Tools such as Metascape sit on top of various bioinformatics knowledge bases; the … Continue reading

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Protein-protein Network Analysis

[This is an old blog written on Monday, January 30, 2017] The protein-protein interaction (PPI) network analysis was introduced into Metascape (http://www.metascape.org) on Nov 2, 2016. We initially relied on BioGRID [1] as the proxy of all public-domain physical protein-protein … Continue reading

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Watch out gene symbols within Excel

[This is an old blog written on Wednesday, February 10, 2016] We do not recommend use gene symbols (or synonyms) as primary identifier within a gene list, especially within Excel. Excel irreversibly converts certain symbols into dates and it becomes … Continue reading

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Why DAVID should no longer be used?

[This is an old blog written on Tuesday, February 9, 2016] National Cancer Institute’s DAVID provides a set of popular bioinformatics tools that help biologists make sense of a list of gene.  However, evidences show that DAVID has not bee updated since … Continue reading

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