vissE-package {vissE} | R Documentation

## vissE: Visualising Set Enrichment Analysis Results

### Description

This package enables the interpretation and analysis of results from a gene set enrichment analysis using network-based and text-mining approaches. Most enrichment analyses result in large lists of significant gene sets that are difficult to interpret. Tools in this package help build a similarity-based network of significant gene sets from a gene set enrichment analysis that can then be investigated for their biological function using text-mining approaches.

### Details

This package supports four workflows to enhance gene set enrichment analysis:

1. Clustering results from a gene set enrichment analysis (e.g. using limma::fry, singscore or GSEA). The functions required for this analysis are `computeMsigOverlap`, `computeMsigNetwork` and `plotMsigNetwork`.

2. Interpreting gene set clusters (identified in the first analysis) by performing text-mining of gene set names and descriptions. The main function required to perform text-mining of gene sets is `plotMsigWordcloud`. Other functions can be used to access intermmediate results.

3. Visualise gene-level statistics for gene set clusters identified in the first analysis to link back gene set clusters to the genes of interest. This can be done using the `plotGeneStats` function.

4. Identifying gene sets similar to a list of genes identified from a DE analysis using set overlap measures. This can be done using the `characteriseGeneset` function.

### Author(s)

Maintainer: Dharmesh D. Bhuva bhuva.d@wehi.edu.au (ORCID)

### See Also

Useful links:

- https://davislaboratory.github.io/vissE

- Report bugs at https://github.com/DavisLaboratory/vissE/issues

[Package vissE version 1.0.0 Index]