Mergeomics: A web server for identifying pathological pathways, networks, and key regulators via multidimensional data integration

BMC Genomics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Arneson, Douglas ^a   Bhattacharya, Anindya ^a   Shu, Le ^a   Mäkinen, Ville Petteri ^b,c,d   Yang, Xia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HEALTH AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Disease network; EWAS; GWAS; Key driver; Multidimensional data integration; Network meta analysis; Omics integration; Pathway meta analysis; TWAS; Web server

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA INTEGRATION; EPIGENETICS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; MERGEOMICS; PHENOTYPE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WEB BROWSER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE;

DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84986596802     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12864-016-3057-8     Document Type: Article

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