Phantasus, a web-application for visual and interactive gene expression analysis

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Transcriptomic profiling became a standard approach to quantify a cell state, which led to accumulation of huge amount of public gene expression datasets. However, both reuse of these datasets or analysis of newly generated ones requires significant technical expertise. Here we present Phantasus - a user-friendly web-application for interactive gene expression analysis which provides a streamlined access to more than 96000 public gene expression datasets, as well as allows analysis of user-uploaded datasets. Phantasus integrates an intuitive and highly interactive JavaScript-based heatmap interface with an ability to run sophisticated R-based analysis methods. Overall Phantasus allows users to go all the way from loading, normalizing and filtering data to doing differential gene expression and downstream analysis. Phantasus can be accessed on-line at https://alserglab.wustl.edu/phantasus or can be installed locally from Bioconductor (https://bioconductor.org/packages/phantasus). Phantasus source code is available at https://github.com/ctlab/phantasus under MIT license.

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The current manuscript is a computational study, so no data have been generated for this manuscript. The application source code is available at https://github.com/ctlab/phantasus under MIT licence.

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Maksim Kleverov

Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Daria Zenkova

Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Vladislav Kamenev

Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Margarita Sablina

Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Maxim N Artyomov

Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis, St Louis, United States

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Alexey A Sergushichev

Computer Technologies Laboratory, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation

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Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Priority 2030 Federal Academic Leadership Program)

Maksim Kleverov
Alexey A Sergushichev

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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