| Function Express provides data mining and
rich visualization capabilities to view and analyze microarray data in
the context of multiple publicly available gene annotation databases. |
A video demo of Function
Express can be downloaded from here  |
| If
you are interested in using Function Express to analyze your microarray
data, please send an email to
help@bmi.wustl.edu
for an appointment. |
Features Supported (New features in bold font)
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Examine gene expression
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 In the context of functional annotations such as biological
processes or molecular functions from Gene Ontology
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Across different microarray
experiments of one or more species. |
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In the context of literature-based gene networks or pathways
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In the context of annotations from public domain databases such
as Entrez Gene, UniGene, GeneCards, and OMIM.
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In the context of interaction partners of the selected gene, as obtained from the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database (BIND).
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In the context of genes that are positively or negatively coexpressed with a selected gene or probe.
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Identify transcription factors of a selected gene from the Promoter Analysis Pipeline.
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| 2. Filter genes on the basis
of annotations or expression data |
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Cluster probesets /samples using different supervised /
unsupervised clustering techniques.New algorithms and viewers include Weighted Voting, Comparative
Marker Selection, Consensus clustering, Principal Component Analysis and Support Vector Machines.
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Custom Annotation Viewer: Displays large amounts of expression and annotation data in the form of a spreadsheet. Allows operations such as user defined calculations on signal values
and data copy/paste.
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Options to use clinical data associated with the experiments during data analyses and visualization of the results.
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Save images of results in the different viewers.
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Export results of clustering.
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Export /import data to/from another analysis applications
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Assign privileges or rights to other investigators for different experiments.
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| System
Specifications |
| The table below lists the minimum vs. preferred operating system
specifications for installing Function Express. |
| Minimum Configuration |
Preferred Configuration |
| Window 2000 / XP |
Window 2000 / XP |
| 512 MB RAM |
1 GB RAM |
| 1 GHz Speed |
1 GHz Speed |
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| Please
download the help file to read more about Function
Express.
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