shinyGISPA: A web application for characterizing phenotype by gene sets using multiple omics data combinations

PLoS One. 2018 Feb 7;13(2):e0192563. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192563. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

While many methods exist for integrating multi-omics data or defining gene sets, there is no one single tool that defines gene sets based on merging of multiple omics data sets. We present shinyGISPA, an open-source application with a user-friendly web-based interface to define genes according to their similarity in several molecular changes that are driving a disease phenotype. This tool was developed to help facilitate the usability of a previously published method, Gene Integrated Set Profile Analysis (GISPA), among researchers with limited computer-programming skills. The GISPA method allows the identification of multiple gene sets that may play a role in the characterization, clinical application, or functional relevance of a disease phenotype. The tool provides an automated workflow that is highly scalable and adaptable to applications that go beyond genomic data merging analysis. It is available at http://shinygispa.winship.emory.edu/shinyGISPA/.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Databases, Genetic
  • Genomics*
  • Humans
  • Internet*
  • Phenotype*
  • Programming Languages