GO FEAT: a rapid web-based functional annotation tool for genomic and transcriptomic data.
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SUBMITTER: Araujo FA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5789007 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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GO FEAT: a rapid web-based functional annotation tool for genomic and transcriptomic data.
Araujo Fabricio Almeida FA Barh Debmalya D Silva Artur A Guimarães Luis L Ramos Rommel Thiago Juca RTJ
Scientific reports 20180129 1
Downstream analysis of genomic and transcriptomic sequence data is often executed by functional annotation that can be performed by various bioinformatics tools and biological databases. However, a full fast integrated tool is not available for such analysis. Besides, the current available software is not able to produce analytic lists of annotations and graphs to help users in evaluating the output results. Therefore, we present the Gene Ontology Functional Enrichment Annotation Tool (GO FEAT), ...[more]
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