Beyond Bioinformatics

Title

GeneVenn - A web application for comparing gene lists using Venn diagrams

Authors

Mehdi Pirooznia, Vijayaraj Nagarajan and Youping Deng^*

Affiliation

Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi - 39406, USA

Email

youping.deng@usm.edu; * Corresponding author

Phone

+1601 266 6678

Fax

+1601 266 5797

Article Type

Web Server

Date

      received June 02, 2006; accepted January 30, 2007; published online April 10, 2007

Abstract

Numerous methods are available to compare results of multiple microarray studies. One of the simplest but most effective of these procedures is to examine the overlap of resulting gene lists in a Venn diagram. Venn diagrams are graphical ways of representing interactions among sets to display information that can be read easily. Here we propose a simple but effective web application creating Venn diagrams from two or three gene lists. Each gene in the group list has link to the related information in NCBI’s Entrez Nucleotide database.

Availability

GeneVenn is available for free at http://mcbc.usm.edu/genevenn/

Keywords

microarray: Venn diagrams; comparison; gene list; graphics

Citation

Pirooznia et al., Bioinformation 1(10): 420-422 (2007)

Edited by

Susmita Datta

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics Publishing Group

Copyright

Publisher

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The authors of published articles in Bioinformation automatically transfer the copyright to the publisher upon formal acceptance. However, the authors reserve right to use the information contained in the article for non commercial purposes.

License

This is an open-access article, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author and source are credited.