GeneMerge--post-genomic analysis, data mining, and hypothesis testing.
CONCLUSIONS
GeneMerge is a web-based and standalone program written in PERL that returns a range of functional and genomic data for a given set of study genes and provides statistical rank scores for over-representation of particular functions or categories in the data set. Functional or categorical data of all kinds can be analyzed with GeneMerge, facilitating regulatory and metabolic pathway analysis, tests of population genetic hypotheses, cross-experiment comparisons, and tests of chromosomal clustering, among others. GeneMerge can perform analyses on a wide variety of genomic data quickly and easily and facilitates both data mining and hypothesis testing.


BACKGROUND
GeneMerge is available free of charge for academic use over the web and for download from: http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/hartl/lab/publications/GeneMerge.html.
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Biological Laboratories, 16 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. ccastillo-davis@oeb.harvard.edu
Cristian I
CI
Castillo-Davis
Daniel L
DL
Hartl
D000465:Algorithms; D003628:Database Management Systems; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D016678:Genome; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software