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- Title
FlyExpress 7: An Integrated Discovery Platform To Study Coexpressed Genes Using in Situ Hybridization Images in Drosophila.
- Authors
Kumar, Sudhir; Konikoff, Charlotte; Sanderford, Maxwell; Li Liu; Newfeld, Stuart; Jieping Ye; Kulathinal, Rob J.
- Abstract
Gene expression patterns assayed across development can offer key clues about a gene's function and regulatory role. Drosophila melanogaster is ideal for such investigations as multiple individual and high-throughput efforts have captured the spatiotemporal patterns of thousands of embryonic expressed genes in the form of in situ images. FlyExpress (www.flyexpress.net), a knowledgebase based on a massive and unique digital library of standardized images and a simple search engine to find coexpressed genes, was created to facilitate the analytical and visual mining of these patterns. Here, we introduce the next generation of FlyExpress resources to facilitate the integrative analysis of sequence data and spatiotemporal patterns of expression from images. FlyExpress 7 now includes over 100,000 standardized in situ images and implements a more efficient, user-defined search algorithm to identify coexpressed genes via Genomewide Expression Maps (GEMs). Shared motifs found in the upstream 59 regions of any pair of coexpressed genes can be visualized in an interactive dotplot. Additional webtools and link-outs to assist in the downstream validation of candidate motifs are also provided. Together, FlyExpress 7 represents our largest effort yet to accelerate discovery via the development and dispersal of new webtools that allow researchers to perform data-driven analyses of coexpression (image) and genomic (sequence) data.
- Subjects
GENE expression; DROSOPHILA genetics; IN situ hybridization
- Publication
G3: Genes | Genomes | Genetics, 2017, Vol 7, Issue 8, p2791
- ISSN
2160-1836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1534/g3.117.040345