COEXPEDIA: exploring biomedical hypotheses via co-expressions associated with medical subject headings (MeSH).
The use of high-throughput array and sequencing technologies has produced unprecedented amounts of gene expression data in central public depositories, including the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO). The immense amount of expression data in GEO provides both vast research opportunities and data analysis challenges. Co-expression analysis of high-dimensional expression data has proven effective for the study of gene functions, and several co-expression databases have been developed. Here, we present a new co-expression database, COEXPEDIA (www.coexpedia.org), which is distinctive from other co-expression databases in three aspects: (i) it contains only co-functional co-expressions that passed a rigorous statistical assessment for functional association, (ii) the co-expressions were inferred from individual studies, each of which was designed to investigate gene functions with respect to a particular biomedical context such as a disease and (iii) the co-expressions are associated with medical subject headings (MeSH) that provide biomedical information for anatomical, disease, and chemical relevance. COEXPEDIA currently contains approximately eight million co-expressions inferred from 384 and 248 GEO series for humans and mice, respectively. We describe how these MeSH-associated co-expressions enable the identification of diseases and drugs previously unknown to be related to a gene or a gene group of interest.
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Sunmo
S
Yang
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Chan Yeong
CY
Kim
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Sohyun
S
Hwang
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Eiru
E
Kim
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Hyojin
H
Kim
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
Hongseok
H
Shim
Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea insuklee@yonsei.ac.kr.
Insuk
I
Lee
D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D055106:Genome-Wide Association Study / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D046650:Medical Subject Headings; D012984:Software
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