A Pathway Analysis Tool for Analyzing Microarray Data of Species with Low Physiological Information

Figure 1

Flow diagram of the pathway analysis tool. The method comprises four steps, of which the first three steps are automated by PERL scripts. Step 1. Use the gene names list of the microarray annotation to search the Gene Ontology database for synonyms of the gene names and add to the list. Step 2. Use the updated gene name list to search the pathway database for pathway information of the genes and add pathway names and web links to the file. Step 3. Visualize the microarray results on the pathways. Step 4. Construct networks of pathways and generate biological knowledge from the results.