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If we are to better understand human\/mammalian biology and complete the catalog of human gene function, it is important to finish predicting putative functions for these genes based upon existing experimental evidence.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Results: A global meta-analysis (GMA) of all publicly available GEO two-channel human microarray datasets (3551 experiments total) was conducted to identify genes with recurrent, reproducible patterns of co-regulation across different conditions. Patterns of co-expression were divided into parallel (i.e. genes are up and down-regulated together) and anti-parallel. Several ranking methods to predict a gene's function based on its top 20 co-expressed gene pairs were compared. In the best method, 34% of predicted Gene Ontology (GO) categories matched exactly with the known GO categories for \u223c5000 genes analyzed versus only 3% for random gene sets. Only 2.4% of co-expressed gene pairs were found as co-occurring gene pairs in MEDLINE.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Conclusions: Via a GO enrichment analysis, genes co-expressed in parallel with the query gene were frequently associated with the same GO categories, whereas anti-parallel genes were not. Combining parallel and anti-parallel genes for analysis resulted in fewer significant GO categories, suggesting they are best analyzed separately. Expression databases contain much unexpected genetic knowledge that has not yet been reported in the literature. A total of 1642 Human genes with unknown function were differentially expressed in at least 30 experiments.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Availability: Data matrix available upon request.<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0jdwren@gmail.com<\/jats:p>\n                  <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp290","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,15]],"date-time":"2009-05-15T20:14:09Z","timestamp":1242418449000},"page":"1694-1701","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":79,"title":["A global meta-analysis of microarray expression data to predict unknown gene functions and estimate the literature-data divide"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Jonathan D.","family":"Wren","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Arthritis and Immunology Research Program, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation;, 825 N.E. 13th Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma OK 73104-5005, USA."}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013112140223600_B1","first-page":"322","article-title":"A robust meta-classification strategy for cancer diagnosis from gene expression data","author":"Alexe","year":"2005","journal-title":"Proc IEEE Comput. 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