Intervene: a tool for intersection and visualization of multiple gene or genomic region sets

BMC Bioinformatics

Software

Aziz Khan¹  Anthony Mathelier² 

[1] Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, 0318, Oslo, Norway;Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Nordic EMBL Partnership, University of Oslo, 0318, Oslo, Norway;Department of Cancer Genetics, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital Radiumhospitalet, 0310, Oslo, Norway;

关键词: Visualization;    Venn diagrams;    UpSet plots;    Heat maps;    Genome analysis;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12859-017-1708-7

 received in 2017-03-26, accepted in 2017-05-23,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundA common task for scientists relies on comparing lists of genes or genomic regions derived from high-throughput sequencing experiments. While several tools exist to intersect and visualize sets of genes, similar tools dedicated to the visualization of genomic region sets are currently limited.ResultsTo address this gap, we have developed the Intervene tool, which provides an easy and automated interface for the effective intersection and visualization of genomic region or list sets, thus facilitating their analysis and interpretation. Intervene contains three modules: venn to generate Venn diagrams of up to six sets, upset to generate UpSet plots of multiple sets, and pairwise to compute and visualize intersections of multiple sets as clustered heat maps. Intervene, and its interactive web ShinyApp companion, generate publication-quality figures for the interpretation of genomic region and list sets.ConclusionsIntervene and its web application companion provide an easy command line and an interactive web interface to compute intersections of multiple genomic and list sets. They have the capacity to plot intersections using easy-to-interpret visual approaches. Intervene is developed and designed to meet the needs of both computer scientists and biologists. The source code is freely available at https://bitbucket.org/CBGR/intervene, with the web application available at https://asntech.shinyapps.io/intervene.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2017