{"id":2893,"date":"2025-11-17T00:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T00:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/?page_id=2893"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:09:30","slug":"enrichment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/enrichment\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrichment Analysis Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/11\/enrichment-analysis-plot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"704\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/11\/enrichment-analysis-plot.png 704w, https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/11\/enrichment-analysis-plot-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Ma\u2019ayan Lab pioneered the development of several enrichment analysis tools. These tools are used by the community to interpret large-scale omics datasets by identifying statistically significant overlaps between nascent gene sets generated experimentally and curated gene sets of pathways, ontologies, transcription factors, diseases, phenotypes, cells and tissues, and other annotations. Our enrichment analysis tools assist researchers to generate hypotheses that uncover molecular mechanisms that explain molecular changes to key biological and pathophysiological processes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Browse through the following categories to explore the various original resources we have developed:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a title=\"Resources\" href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/\">Most Popular<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/recently-published\/\">Recently Published<\/a> |\u00a0 <strong>Enrichment Analysis<\/strong> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/drug-and-target-discovery\/\">Drug and Target Discovery<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/computational-platforms\/\">Computational Platforms and Workflow Engines<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/gene-and-drug-pages\/\">Gene and Drug Pages<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/lncrna-tools\/\">lncRNAs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/portals\/\">Data Portals<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/visualization\/\">Data Visualization Components<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/resources\/deprecated\/\">Deprecated<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/Enrichr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2886 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/09\/enrichr_logo2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/Enrichr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enrichr<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Gene-List Enrichment Analysis Tool<\/strong><br \/>\nAn integrative web-based and mobile gene-list enrichment analysis tool that includes 225 gene-set libraries, an alternative approach to rank enriched terms, and various interactive visualization approaches to display enrichment results using the JavaScript library Data-Driven Documents (D3). Enrichr is freely available online. The software can also be embedded easily into any tool that performs gene list analysis.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23586463\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 23586463<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27141961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 27141961<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/33780170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 33780170<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/enrichr-kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2758 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/09\/enrichr-kg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/enrichr-kg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enrichr-KG<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Knowledge Graph Implementation of Enrichr<\/strong><br \/>\nEnrichr-KG is a knowledge graph database and a web-server application that combines selected gene set libraries from Enrichr for integrative enrichment analysis and visualization. The enrichment results are presented as subgraphs made of nodes and links that connect genes to their enriched terms. In addition, users of Enrichr-KG can add gene-gene links, as well as predicted genes to the subgraphs. This graphical representation of cross-library results with enriched and predicted genes can illuminate hidden associations between genes and annotated enriched terms from across datasets and resources.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/37166973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 37166973<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/chea3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1479 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/05\/chea3-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"48\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/chea3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChEA3<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ChIP-X Enrichment Analysis Version 3<\/strong><br \/>\nA transcription factor enrichment analysis tool that ranks TFs associated with user-submitted gene sets. The ChEA3 background database contains a collection of gene set libraries generated from multiple sources including TF\u2013gene co-expression from RNA-seq studies, TF\u2013target associations from ChIP-seq experiments, and TF\u2013gene co-occurrence computed from crowd-submitted gene lists.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nar\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/nar\/gkz446\/5494769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 31114921<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/chea3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2888 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/09\/chea-kg_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/chea-kg.maayanlab.cloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChEA-KG<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ChIP-X Enrichment Analysis &#8211; Knowledge Graph<\/strong><br \/>\nHere we present a different approach to reconstruct the human gene regulatory network (GRN). By submitting thousands of gene sets from the <a href=\"https:\/\/rummageo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RummaGEO<\/a> resource for transcription factor enrichment analysis with <a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/chea3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ChEA3<\/a>, we are able to distill signed and directed edges that connect all human transcription factors to construct a high quality human GRN. The GRN has 130,793 signed and directed edges between 703 source and 1,543 target transcription factors. The network is made accessible via an interactive web-based application called ChEA-KG. ChEA-KG enables users to query the GRN by searching for single or pairs of transcription factors, as well as by submitting gene sets to perform transcription factor enrichment analysis with ChEA3 and then place the enriched transcription factors in context of ChEA-KG..<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40832173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 40832173<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/kea3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2768 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/09\/KEA3_logo_transparent.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/kea3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KEA3<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Kinase Enrichment Analysis Version 3<\/strong><br \/>\nInfers upstream kinases whose putative substrates are overrepresented in a user-inputted list of genes or differentially phosphorylated proteins. The KEA3 database contains putative kinase-substrate interactions collected from publicly available datasets. Gene sets of putative kinase substrates are used as the primary units of analysis in KEA3. These gene sets are organized in gene set &#8220;libraries.&#8221; Libraries are supersets of kinase substrate sets that are aggregated based on the database from which they are derived.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34019655\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 34019655<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rummagene.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2845 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/09\/rummagene_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/rummagene.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rummagene<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Massive Mining of Gene Sets from Supporting Materials of Biomedical Research Publications<\/strong><br \/>\nRummagene is a web server application that provides access to hundreds of thousands human and mouse gene sets extracted from supporting materials of publications listed on PubMed Central (PMC). To create Rummagene, we first developed a softbot that extracts human and mouse gene sets from supporting tables of PMC publications. So far, the softbot scanned <strong>6,327,912 <\/strong>PMC articles to find <strong>147,611<\/strong>\u00a0articles that contain <strong>793,703<\/strong>\u00a0gene sets. These gene sets are served for enrichment analysis, free text and table title search. Users of Rummagene can submit their own gene sets to find matching gene sets ranked by their overlap with the input gene set. In addition to providing the extracted gene sets for search, we investigated the massive corpus of these gene sets for statistical patterns. We show how Rummagene can be used for transcription factor and kinase enrichment analyses, for universal predictions of cell types for single cell RNA-seq data, and for gene function predictions. Finally, by combining gene set similarity with abstract similarity, Rummagene can be used to find surprising relationships between unexpected biological processes, concepts, and named entities.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/38643247\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 38643247<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rummageo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2752 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2025\/09\/rummageo_logo.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/rummageo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RummaGEO<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Massive Mining of Gene Expression Signatures from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)<\/strong><br \/>\nRummaGEO is a web server application that enables gene expression signature search against all human and mouse RNA-seq studies deposited into GEO. To enable such a search engine, we performed offline automatic identification of conditions from uniformly aligned GEO studies available from ARCHS4, and then computed differential expression signatures to extract gene sets from these signatures. In total, RummaGEO currently contains <strong>178,975<\/strong> human and <strong>203,427<\/strong> mouse gene sets from <strong>30,576 <\/strong>GEO studies. Overall, RummaGEO provides an unprecedented resource for the biomedical research community enabling hypotheses generation for many future studies.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/patterns\/fulltext\/S2666-3899(24)00231-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DOI: 10.1016\/j.patter.2024.101072<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MaayanLab\/blitzgsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2310 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2023\/03\/bgsea_cropped.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"31\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/MaayanLab\/blitzgsea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blitzGSEA<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Efficient Computation of GSEA through Gamma Distribution Approximation<\/strong><br \/>\nblitzGSEA is an algorithm that is based on the same running sum statistic as GSEA, but instead of performing permutations, blitzGSEA approximates the enrichment score probabilities based on Gamma distributions. blitzGSEA achieves significant improvement in performance compared with prior GSEA implementations, while approximating small P-values more accurately<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/35143610\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 35143610<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/modEnrichr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1459 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/labs.icahn.mssm.edu\/maayanlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2019\/05\/modEnrichrlogo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/modEnrichr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">modEnrichr<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>A Suite of Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Tools for Model Organisms<\/strong><br \/>\nAn expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/maayanlab.cloud\/Enrichr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enrichr<\/a> for four model organisms: fish, fly, worm and yeast. The modEnrichr suite of tools provides the ability to convert gene lists across species using an ortholog conversion tool that automatically detects the species.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/nar\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/nar\/gkz347\/5487261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID: 31069376<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ma\u2019ayan Lab pioneered the development of several enrichment analysis tools. These tools are used by the community to interpret large-scale omics datasets by identifying statistically significant overlaps between nascent gene sets generated experimentally and curated gene sets of pathways, ontologies, transcription factors, diseases, phenotypes, cells and tissues, and other annotations. 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