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Annotation Tools For Multivariate Gene Set Testing Of Non-Model Organisms, Russell K. Banks
Annotation Tools For Multivariate Gene Set Testing Of Non-Model Organisms, Russell K. Banks
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Microarray chip technology enables researchers to obtain measures of gene activity for essentially all genes in an organism. After grouping genes into biologically meaningful sets, researchers employ certain statistical tests to identify which gene sets (biological processes) show different levels of activity across different treatment groups. The idea is to identify which biological processes are significantly affected by a certain treatment/condition in a given organism.
Non-model organisms (such as sheep) are not widely studied so gene set membership information is not always readily accessible. This thesis work utilizes two microarray studies involving sheep to provide researchers with working examples of …