Tag Archives: Excel

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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Gene Annotation by ChatGPT

Posted on June 23, 2023 by Metascape

We are excited to leverage the power of ChatGPT to improve Metascape! ChatGPT is a powerful language engine that has gained broad biological knowledge by digesting text from the Internet. GPT-4 scores a 5 in AP Biology and 99th to … Continue reading →

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Analysis Report Available Offline

Posted on January 31, 2018 by Metascape

[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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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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