GeneFEAST: the pivotal, gene-centric step in functional enrichment analysis interpretation
Taylor A., Macaulay VM., Miossec MJ., Maurya AK., Buffa FM.
Abstract Summary GeneFEAST, implemented in Python, is a gene-centric functional enrichment analysis summarization and visualization tool that can be applied to large functional enrichment analysis (FEA) results arising from upstream FEA pipelines. It produces a systematic, navigable HTML report, making it easy to identify sets of genes putatively driving multiple enrichments and to explore gene-level quantitative data first used to identify input genes. Further, GeneFEAST can juxtapose FEA results from multiple studies, making it possible to highlight patterns of gene expression amongst genes that are differentially expressed in at least one of multiple conditions, and which give rise to shared enrichments under those conditions. Thus, GeneFEAST offers a novel, effective way to address the complexities of linking up many overlapping FEA results to their underlying genes and data, advancing gene-centric hypotheses, and providing pivotal information for downstream validation experiments. Availability and implementation GeneFEAST GitHub repository: https://github.com/avigailtaylor/GeneFEAST; Zenodo record: 10.5281/zenodo.14753734; Python Package Index: https://pypi.org/project/genefeast; Docker container: ghcr.io/avigailtaylor/genefeast.