Category Archives: Comment

How We Keep Data Fresh?

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Metascape

[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

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Metascape

[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

Posted on February 10, 2016 by Metascape

[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?

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Metascape

[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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