netgsa

Network-based Gene Set Analysis

This package carries out Network-based Gene Set Analysis by incorporating external information about interactions among genes, as well as novel interactions learned from data.

Package Installation

You can install it directly from GitHub through devtools:

library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("mikehellstern/netgsa", build_vignettes=T)

Updates

The most recent implementation has optimized the NetGSA computation in the following aspects:

References

Ma, Jing, Shojaie, Ali and Michailidis, George. (2016) Network-based pathway enrichment analysis with incomplete network information. Bioinformatics https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw410