Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete 70013, Greece.
Department of Psychiatry; Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Institute for Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA; Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (VISN 2 South), James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Jul 3;45(W1):W116-W121. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkx278.
( www.minepath.org ) is a web-based platform that elaborates on, and radically extends the identification of differentially expressed sub-paths in molecular pathways. Besides the network topology, the underlying MinePath algorithmic processes exploit exact gene-gene molecular relationships (e.g. activation, inhibition) and are able to identify differentially expressed pathway parts. Each pathway is decomposed into all its constituent sub-paths, which in turn are matched with corresponding gene expression profiles. The highly ranked, and phenotype inclined sub-paths are kept. Apart from the pathway analysis algorithm, the fundamental innovation of the MinePath web-server concerns its advanced visualization and interactive capabilities. To our knowledge, this is the first pathway analysis server that introduces and offers visualization of the underlying and active pathway regulatory mechanisms instead of genes. Other features include live interaction, immediate visualization of functional sub-paths per phenotype and dynamic linked annotations for the engaged genes and molecular relations. The user can download not only the results but also the corresponding web viewer framework of the performed analysis. This feature provides the flexibility to immediately publish results without publishing source/expression data, and get all the functionality of a web based pathway analysis viewer.
MinePath (www.minepath.org) 是一个基于网络的平台,用于阐述和彻底扩展分子途径中差异表达的子途径的识别。除了网络拓扑结构外,MinePath 算法过程还利用了精确的基因-基因分子关系(例如激活、抑制),并能够识别差异表达的途径部分。每条途径都被分解为其所有组成的子途径,这些子途径反过来又与相应的基因表达谱相匹配。保留高度排名和表型倾向的子途径。除了途径分析算法外,MinePath 网络服务器的基本创新还在于其先进的可视化和交互功能。据我们所知,这是第一个引入并提供基础和活跃途径调节机制可视化而不是基因的途径分析服务器。其他功能包括实时交互、每个表型的功能子途径的即时可视化以及所涉及基因和分子关系的动态链接注释。用户不仅可以下载结果,还可以下载执行分析的相应网络查看器框架。此功能提供了灵活性,可以立即发布结果而无需发布源/表达数据,并获得基于网络的途径分析查看器的所有功能。