CRSD: a comprehensive web server for composite regulatory signature discovery.
Transcription factors (TFs) and microRNAs play important roles in the regulation of human gene expression, and the study of their combinatory regulations of gene expression is a new research field. We constructed a comprehensive web server, the composite regulatory signature database (CRSD), that can be applied in investigating complex regulatory behaviors involving gene expression signatures (GESs), microRNA regulatory signatures (MRSs) and TF regulatory signatures (TRSs). Six well-known and large-scale databases, including the human UniGene, mature microRNAs, putative promoter, TRANSFAC, pathway and Gene Ontology (GO) databases, were integrated to provide the comprehensive analysis in CRSD. Two new genome-wide databases, of MRSs and TRSs, were also constructed and further integrated into CRSD. To accomplish the microarray data analysis at one go, several methods, including microarray data pretreatment, statistical and clustering analysis, iterative enrichment analysis and motif discovery, were closely integrated in the web server, which has not been the case in previous studies. Our implementation showed that the published literature could demonstrate the results of genome-wide enrichment analysis. We conclude that CRSD is a powerful and useful bioinformatic web server and may provide new insights into gene regulation networks. CRSD and the online tutorial are publicly available at http://biochip.nchu.edu.tw/crsd1/.
Liu
Chun-Chi
CC
Department of Computer Science, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, ROC.
Lin
Chin-Chung
CC
Chen
Wen-Shyen E
WS
Chen
Hsuan-Yu
HY
Chang
Pei-Chun
PC
Chen
Jeremy J W
JJ
Yang
Pan-Chyr
PC
D020413:3' Untranslated Regions / Q000737:chemistry*; D001665:Binding Sites; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D035683:MicroRNAs / Q000378:metabolism*; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011401:Promoter Regions, Genetic; D012984:Software; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000378:metabolism*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
D020413:3' Untranslated Regions; D035683:MicroRNAs; D014157:Transcription Factors