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How to perform a Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA)

This article explains what a Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is, how it works and how to use it with OmicsBox. What is an enrichment analysis? Enrichment analyses are a family of bioinformatics methods that aim to facilitate the biological interpretation of many bioinformatics results. Among these, the methods based on gene sets analysis are particularly helpful and widespread. The

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How to use PSORTb

This tutorial shows how to assign subcellular localizations with PSORTb in OmicsBox/Blast2GO. We also explain how to merge the obtained results to the existing functional annotations of a Blast2GO project. OmicsBox/Blast2GO allows to assigns sub-cellular localization sites to proteins based on their amino acid sequence via PSORTb. PSORTb is an algorithm which can be applied to bacteria or archaea protein sequences

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Coloured Graphs: How to combine multiple functional GO profiles

The Coloured Graph option is a function in Blast2GO which allows to combine and visualize multiple functional profiles within one GO graph. For each group or profile a different color can be assigned and the resulting GO graph can be filtered and colored accordingly. This video shows how to create a text files to generate a Coloured Graph for three

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How to select sequences by function and create ID lists

This tutorial shows how to use the Generic Table and the “Select” functions in Blast2GO to identify sequences based on its biological functions and how to create and combine ID lists. These lists can be saved and used in downstream analysis like e.g. enrichment analysis. In Blast2GO, sequences are shown in table format. Per default, annotation projects use the Blast2GO

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How to perform a Fisher’s Exact Test

OmicsBox allows performing functional enrichment analysis with a Fisher’s Exact Test. It is a statistical test based on contingency tables to study the significance of the association between two kind of classifications. OmicsBox allows to apply this test to Gene Ontology functional annotations and other labels and to compare different gene lists against each other. This is used to identify

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How to use BioMart and GO-Slim

This short video shows how to use BioMart and GO-Slim to download and review the whole human genome functional annotation with Blast2GO. BioMart allows you to download the functional annotations of many different organisms directly into Blast2GO. BioMart offers many different identifiers like e.g. UniProt, Ensembl, HGNC, etc. Additionally to the annotations, it is also possible to obtain the protein

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How to use RFAM

Blast2GO allows search for non-coding RNA (ncRNA) families and other structured RNA elements sequences via the RFAM webservice. The RFAM database is a collection of RNA families, categorized into three functional classes: non-coding RNA genes structured cis-regulatory elements self-splicing RNAs The RFAM algorithm allows via alignments to search this database and classify your sequence dataset. This might be interesting for contigs obtained via

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How to Set Maximum Memory for Blast2GO

OmicsBox/Blast2GO automatically reserves up to 80% of the available system memory (i.e. RAM), which is fine in most cases. However, sometimes and especially on Linux, this can lead to excessive swapping and will slow down Blast2GO. Follow this guide to manually change the maximum amount of memory Blast2GO will be allowed to use.

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