Major Functions

Analytic Approaches

Full text Search
Pairwise Comparison
Import Gene list
Clustering
KEGG Globalview
Gene List Analysis

Show Gene list
Show Venn Diagram
Calculate GO term enrichment
Calculate KEGG pathway enrichment
Draw Heatmap with 2D clustering

Full-text Search

Search the gene or any keyword you interest. It comes out the gene/ keyword appearing in GeneName, description, or KEGG.
After clicking the buttom "send", user will get the output as below for more information and links.
User can save the list as CSV to local machine or as "Gene list" for deep analysis in the tab named as "Gene List Analysis".

Library Comparison

Pairwise library comparison allows user to compare the difference between two groups.

Select libraries which you want to compare and analyze. If two or more libraries are selected in one group, the mean values are taken as the expression profile of this group. After set the comparing scheme, the number of selected genes will be shown. And then user can choose the approaches listed below for deep analysis.

More about the Analytic Approaches.

Import GeneList

In MOLAS, user can upload gene list in gene symbol and ENSEMBL transcript ID. And then MOLAS will give a report about the number of imported genes successfully. For example, we can import the cancer gene panel and save them as gene list to perform the calculation with other gene lists generated by different omic approaches. Meanwhile, user might start the analysis by selecting Analytic Approach .

Clustering

According to the libraries imported, user can divide these libraries into several groups for clustering. And clicking the buttom "View Clustering Results", those results done before will be listed for retrieval.

After grouping and parameters setting for clustering, user may choose one or several clusters for deep analysis selecting Analytic Approach.

KEGG GlobalView

In MOLAS, we provide a view on specific pathway by integration of KEGG database. User can explore the different pathways to save all the genes belonged to specific pathway and jump into the map to check the methylation level on specific component (like enzyme 2.7.1.3 in the case below). In this way, it is easy to grasp those genes possesed of particular functions for deep analysis .

Gene List Analysis

According to different omic approaches used in MOLAS, we can generate many gene lists to close the core of research goal. All the lists with the notes about the ways them generated, are shown as below. User can select some of them to perform the deep analysis like showing gene list, performing logical operation in Venn diagram, calculating functional enrichment and plotting the heatmap.

Approaches for Deep Analysis

In MOLAs, five major analytic approaches are ready for online analyses.

Show Gene list

Just list the genes generated from various approaches. User also can perform the search with keyword or location like "chr7" in the case below to narrow down the search output. Of course, all the output can be saved as new gene list for deep analysis.

Show Venn Diagram

By selecting more than two gene lists, the logical operation can be performed to get the specific genes and selected as new list for further analysis.

Calculate GO term enrichment

After set the value of P-value, user can reveal the possible functions inside the gene list in Biological Process, Molecular Function and Cellular Component. And the genes annotated with specific GO term can be saved as new gene list for further analysis.

Calculate KEGG pathway enrichment

Similar to the function with GO term enrichment, user can click name of pathway to see the regulatory relationship. Meanwhile, clicking the rectangle box in the pathway will show the expressed level for those genes shared the same KEGG Orthology (KO). And those genes belonged to specific pathway can be saved as list for further analysis.

Draw heatmap with 2D clustering

A Heat map is a graphical representation of data where the expressed levels of each sample contained in a matrix are shown as colors. Sometime the number of genes in Heatmap is nore than hundreds, it shows as a black bar and is hard to read. Here we can roll the mouse wheel to zoom in the list and select those genes with interest as new gene list for further analysis.