Sunday, September 23, 2012

Systematic and integrative analysis of large gene lists using DAVID bioinformatics resources

http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v4/n1/full/nprot.2008.211.html


Da Wei Huang1,2, Brad T Sherman1,2 & Richard A Lempicki1
DAVID bioinformatics resources consists of an integrated biological knowledgebase and analytic tools aimed at systematically extracting biological meaning from large gene/protein lists. This protocol explains how to use DAVID, a high-throughput and integrated data-mining environment, to analyze gene lists derived from high-throughput genomic experiments. The procedure first requires uploading a gene list containing any number of common gene identifiers followed by analysis using one or more text and pathway-mining tools such as gene functional classification, functional annotation chart or clustering and functional annotation table. By following this protocol, investigators are able to gain an in-depth understanding of the biological themes in lists of genes that are enriched in genome-scale studies.

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