Tag Archives: Excel

Clustering Enriched Ontology Terms

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

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

[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

[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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