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g:Profiler: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists (2019 update)

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Raudvere, Uku, Kolberg, Liis, Kuzmin, Ivan, Arak, Tambet, Adler, Priit, Peterson, Hedi, Vilo, Jaak·2019·Nucleic Acids Research

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Biological data analysis often deals with lists of genes arising from various studies. The g:Profiler toolset is widely used for finding biological categories enriched in gene lists, conversions between gene identifiers and mappings to their orthologs. The mission of g:Profiler is to provide a reliable service based on up-to-date high quality data in a convenient manner across many evidence types, identifier spaces and organisms. g:Profiler relies on Ensembl as a primary data source and follows their quarterly release cycle while updating the other data sources simultaneously. The current update provides a better user experience due to a modern responsive web interface, standardised API and libraries. The results are delivered through an interactive and configurable web design. Results can be downloaded as publication ready visualisations or delimited text files. In the current update we have extended the support to 467 species and strains, including vertebrates, plants, fungi, insects and parasites. By supporting user uploaded custom GMT files, g:Profiler is now capable of analysing data from any organism. All past releases are maintained for reproducibility and transparency. The 2019 update introduces an extensive technical rewrite making the services faster and more flexible. g:Profiler is freely available at https://biit.cs.ut.ee/gprofiler.

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Authors
Raudvere, U., Kolberg, L., Kuzmin, I., Arak, T., Adler, P., Peterson, H., & Vilo, J.
Affiliations
  • University of Tartu (EE)
  • Quretec (Estonia) (EE)
Corresponding author
  • Peterson, Hedi
  • Vilo, Jaak
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2019-05-08
Volume
47
Issue
W1
Pages
W191-W198
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2944545583
Cited by
5,045
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 375 · 2025: 558 · 2024: 920 · 2023: 1051 · 2022: 929 · 2021: 774 · 2020: 387 · 2019: 48
FWCI
181.01
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Estonian Research Council (IUT34-4)
  • European Regional Development Fund (2014-2020.4.01.16-0271)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
Keywords
g:Profiler, functional enrichment, ortholog mapping, gene identifiers, Ensembl, web server, reproducibility, interactive visualization
MeSH terms
Animals, Fungi, Humans, Parasites, Plants, Software, Information Storage and Retrieval, Genome, Databases, Genetic

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