Tag Archives: Visualization

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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Visualize Networks Online and Offline

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Metascape

Metascape provides intuitive visualizations for either pathway enrichment networks or protein-protein interaction networks. By default, we do not display labels for the nodes within the .png and .pdf outputs, because displaying them will make both networks and labels unreadable (Figure … 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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