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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

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.