Category Archives: Manual

Clustering Enriched Ontology Terms

Posted on December 13, 2023 by Metascape

The Metascape forum receives many questions about how enrichment bar graphs and heatmaps are created. This blog post explains the backend algorithms. For a given gene list, we use the accumulative hypergeometric test (or Fisher’s exact test) to compute the … Continue reading →

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Clustergram for Enrichment

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Metascape

This blog serves as the missing manual of the clustergram feature. Introduction Metascape visualizes enrichment results as a bar graph, a heatmap, or a network. In all cases, the unit for the visualization is a pathway/process, as this provides a … Continue reading →

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