DrEdGE

DrEdGE enables interactive visualization and exploration of RNA sequencing (RNAseq) data to facilitate discovery of differentially expressed genes, samples, and expression patterns.


Key Features:

  • Interactive Data Visualization: Generates dynamic, customizable visual representations of RNA sequencing (RNAseq) data.
  • Queryable Visualizations: Allows condition-based querying of visualizations to identify genes, samples, or expression patterns of interest.
  • Public Dataset Integration: Supports creation of visualizations from public RNAseq datasets including human neuronal tissue, mouse embryonic tissue, and Caenorhabditis elegans whole embryos.
  • Differential Expression Exploration: Facilitates examination and comparison of differential gene expression patterns across samples and conditions.

Scientific Applications:

  • Differential gene expression analysis: Enables identification and visualization of differentially expressed genes from RNAseq datasets.
  • Developmental biology: Supports exploration of temporal and tissue-specific expression patterns in embryonic datasets.
  • Neurobiology: Facilitates visualization and comparison of gene expression in human neuronal tissue datasets.
  • Evolutionary genetics: Allows comparative examination of expression patterns across species and developmental stages.

Methodology:

Generation of interactive, queryable visualizations from RNA sequencing (RNAseq) datasets.

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Tool Type:
web application
Added:
1/18/2021
Last Updated:
3/3/2021

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Publications

Tintori SC, Golden P, Goldstein B. Differential Expression Gene Explorer (DrEdGE): a tool for generating interactive online visualizations of gene expression datasets. Bioinformatics. 2020;36(8):2581-2583. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz972. PMID:31899488. PMCID:PMC7178403.

PMID: 31899488
PMCID: PMC7178403
Funding: - National Institutes of Health: R01 GM083071, R35 GM134838 - National Science Foundation: IOS 1557432 - Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation: 19-1211

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