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Often, GSA needs to be done highly interactively by combining or modifying gene lists or inspecting gene-gene interactions in a molecular network.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Description<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>We developed <jats:italic>gsGator<\/jats:italic>, a web-based platform for functional interpretation of gene sets with useful features such as cross-species GSA, simultaneous analysis of multiple gene sets, and a fully integrated network viewer for visualizing both GSA results and molecular networks. An extensive set of gene annotation information is amassed including GO &amp; pathways, genomic annotations, protein-protein interaction, transcription factor-target (TF-target), miRNA targeting, and phenotype information for various model organisms. By combining the functionalities of <jats:italic>Set Creator, Set Operator and Network Navigator<\/jats:italic>, user can perform highly flexible and interactive GSA by creating a new gene list by any combination of existing gene sets (intersection, union and difference) or expanding genes interactively along the molecular networks such as protein-protein interaction and TF-target. We also demonstrate the utility of our interactive and cross-species GSA implemented in gsGator by several usage examples for interpreting genome-wide association study (GWAS) results. gsGator is freely available at <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" xlink:href=\"http:\/\/gsGator.ewha.ac.kr\" ext-link-type=\"uri\">http:\/\/gsGator.ewha.ac.kr<\/jats:ext-link>.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Interactive and cross-species GSA in gsGator greatly extends the scope and utility of GSA, leading to novel insights via conserved functional gene modules across different species.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1471-2105-15-13","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,1,14]],"date-time":"2014-01-14T20:15:20Z","timestamp":1389730520000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["gsGator: an integrated web platform for cross-species gene set analysis"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Hyunjung","family":"Kang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Ikjung","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sooyoung","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Daeun","family":"Ryu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Sanghyuk","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Wankyu","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,1,14]]},"reference":[{"issue":"Web Server issu","key":"6268_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"W169","DOI":"10.1093\/nar\/gkm415","volume":"35","author":"W da Huang","year":"2007","unstructured":"da Huang W, Sherman BT, Tan Q, Kir J, Liu D, Bryant D, Guo Y, Stephens R, Baseler MW, Lane HC, et al: DAVID Bioinformatics Resources: expanded annotation database and novel algorithms to better extract biology from large gene lists. 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