The Gene Set Builder: collation, curation, and distribution of sets of genes

Background: In bioinformatics and genomics, there are many applications designed to investigate the common properties for a set of genes. Often, these multi-gene analysis tools attempt to reveal sequential, functional, and expressional ties. However, while tremendous effort has been invested in developing tools that can analyze a set of genes, minimal effort has been invested in developing tools that can help researchers compile, store, and annotate gene sets in the first place. As a result, the process of making or accessing a set often involves tedious and time consuming steps such as finding identifiers for each individual gene. These steps are often repeated extensively to shift from one identifier type to another; or to recreate a published set. In this paper, we present a simple online tool which

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2005
• Where: BMCBI
• Authors: Dimas Yusuf, Jonathan S. Lim, Wyeth W. Wasserman
• Keywords: BMCBI 2005, Gene Set, Gene Set Builder, Tool