What is dictyExpress?
dictyExpress is an interactive, web-based exploratory data analytics application providing access to over 1,000 Dictyostelium gene expression experiments from Baylor College of Medicine.
Screenshots

Experiment and gene selection
Experiment and gene selection
Select an experiment and a set of genes |

Expression profile with three genes
Expression profile with three genes |

Gene co-expression networkGene co-expression network |

Dendrogram and heatmap showing the results of hierarchical clustering
Dendrogram and heatmap showing the results of hierarchical clustering
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Expression profile of pkaC in three
different experiments
Expression profile of pkaC in three different experiments |
Gene ontology enrichment analysis

Gene Ontology term enrichment analysis
using a selected set of genes
Gene Ontology enrichment on selected genes
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Credits
Dictyostelium gene expression data provided by dictyExpress are from the Functional Genomics Project at Baylor College of Medicine. Founding was provided by the National Institute of Health (P01-HD39691), Slovenian Research Agency (P2-0209, J2-9699, L2-1112), and Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training of the Gulf Coast Consortia (NIH Grants 1 T90 DA022885 and 1 R90 DA023418).
dictyExpress is powered by Orange.
Features
- Access gene expression data from over 1,000 D. discoideum microarrays and D. discoideum and D. purpureum RNA-Seq experiments
- Plot gene expression profiles in any of over 25 mutant strains
- Find clusters of similarly expressed genes
- Navigate through gene co-expression networks
- Perform gene ontology term enrichment analysis
- Draw an expression profile and find genes with similar expressions
- Compare gene expression accross different strains
- Explore cell-type specific gene expression