February 23, 2011
Expression analysis at SGD has a new powerful interface and many new datasets. The new interface uses a tool called SPELL (Serial Pattern of Expression Levels Locator). This analysis tool facilitates the rapid identification of the most informative datasets and co-expressed genes based on patterns of expression shared with the query gene(s). By transitioning to this tool, expression data from a comprehensive collection of almost 400 datasets are now available at SGD. The expression analysis tool can be accessed via the expression tab, the expression summary histogram, and in the functional analysis pulldown located on Locus Summary pages. These new data and the SPELL interface have been provided through a collaboration with the SGD Colony at Princeton University. Thanks to Peter Koppstein, Lance Parsons, and Kara Dolinski for help with data preparation and implementation of SPELL at SGD. SPELL was developed by the Troyanskaya lab at Princeton University (Hibbs et al. (2007) Bioinformatics 23:2692).
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