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However, biologists are still faced by the challenge of comparing gene sets and interpreting the functional relationships between gene sets into an understanding of the underlying biological mechanisms.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We introduce a novel network-based method, designated corrected cumulative rank score (CCRS), which analyzes the functional communication and physical interaction between genes, and presents an easy-to-use web-based toolkit called GsNetCom to quantify the functional relationship between two gene sets. To evaluate the performance of our method in assessing the functional similarity between two gene sets, we analyzed the functional coherence of complexes in functional catalog and identified protein complexes in the same functional catalog. The results suggested that CCRS can offer a significant advance in addressing the functional relationship between different gene sets compared with several other available tools or algorithms with similar functionality. We also conducted the case study based on our method, and succeeded in prioritizing candidate leukemia-associated protein complexes and expanding the prioritization and analysis of cancer-related complexes to other cancer types. In addition, GsNetCom provides a new insight into the communication between gene modules, such as exploring gene sets from the perspective of well-annotated protein complexes.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and Implementation: GsNetCom is a freely available web accessible toolkit at http:\/\/bioinfo.hrbmu.edu.cn\/GsNetCom.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0lixia@hrbmu.edu.cn<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr154","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,31]],"date-time":"2011-03-31T00:31:59Z","timestamp":1301531519000},"page":"1521-1528","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["A novel network-based method for measuring the functional relationship between gene sets"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"Qianghu","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Meng","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Haixiu","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Yan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Xiang","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Sali","family":"Lv","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Xia","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]},{"given":"Yixue","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"},{"name":"1 College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150081 and 2Bioinformatics Center, Key Lab of Systems Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,3,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012511152062600_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"W91","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkm260","article-title":"FatiGO +: a functional profiling tool for genomic data. 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