DEACT: An Online Tool for Analysing Complementary RNA-Seq Studies - A Case Study of Knockdown and Upregulated FLI1 in Breast Cancer Cells

Katherine Duchinski, Margaret Antonio, Dennis Watson, Paul Anderson

2017

Abstract

Understanding the genetic basis of disease may lead to the development of life-saving diagnostics and therapeutics. RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) gives a snapshot of cellular processes via high-throughput transcriptome sequencing. Meta-analysis of multiple RNA-Seq experiments has the potential to (a) elucidate gene function under different conditions and (b) compare results in replicate experiments. To simplify such meta-analyses, we created the Dataset Exploration And Curation Tool (DEACT), an interactive, user-friendly web application. DEACT allows users to (1) interactively visualize RNA-Seq data, (2) select genes of interest through the user interface, and (3) download subsets for downstream analyses. We tested DEACT using two complementary RNA-seq studies resulting from knockdown and gain-of-function FLI1 in an aggressive breast cancer cell line. We performed fixed gene-set enrichment analysis on four subsets of genes selected through DEACT. Each subset implicated different metabolic pathways, demonstrating the power of DEACT in driving downstream analysis of complementary RNA-Seq studies.

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Duchinski K., Antonio M., Watson D. and Anderson P. (2017). DEACT: An Online Tool for Analysing Complementary RNA-Seq Studies - A Case Study of Knockdown and Upregulated FLI1 in Breast Cancer Cells . In Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-214-1, pages 154-159. DOI: 10.5220/0006152901540159


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@conference{bioinformatics17,
author={Katherine Duchinski and Margaret Antonio and Dennis Watson and Paul Anderson},
title={DEACT: An Online Tool for Analysing Complementary RNA-Seq Studies - A Case Study of Knockdown and Upregulated FLI1 in Breast Cancer Cells},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={154-159},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006152901540159},
isbn={978-989-758-214-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 3: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2017)
TI - DEACT: An Online Tool for Analysing Complementary RNA-Seq Studies - A Case Study of Knockdown and Upregulated FLI1 in Breast Cancer Cells
SN - 978-989-758-214-1
AU - Duchinski K.
AU - Antonio M.
AU - Watson D.
AU - Anderson P.
PY - 2017
SP - 154
EP - 159
DO - 10.5220/0006152901540159