Figure 5

The interface of the PPEP for retrieval of associated genes with selected terms from pattern extraction results or other resources. Users first need to select the functional category for the intended terms (e.g., GO Biological Processes). Then the data source (i.e. a Stanford format file with the matrix of terms [4]) can be selected, from which intended terms can be selected. The gene list files that are originally used for batch computation of enrichment results can be selected into the <Selected Gene List Text Files> table. The retrieved gene-term relations are presented in a binary format (gene-term pairs), which can be either displayed in the table at the bottom of the interface, or saved as a file for future use. The retrieved pairwise gene-term relations displayed in the table can be immediately used to create a GTAN (gene-term association network: [4]) and visualize the data of the interested gene lists on the context of GTANs.