Introduction to Gene Ontology and Pathway Analysis

About this Class

Whether you are measuring mRNA expression, protein expression, DNA methylation, expressed miRNAs, protein binding to DNA or RNA, etc., you will likely end up with a list of genes or gene products from which you would like to derive functional relationships. In the -omics world, functional enrichment analysis is an umbrella term encompassing approaches used to derive biological / functional meaning from gene lists. This lesson, which is the first of three lessons focused on "pathway analysis", introduces concepts, methods, tools, and databases related to functional enrichment and pathway analysis. This is NOT a hands-on lesson.