What is a gene list?
A. A gene list is a group of genes with some common property. This property could be membership of a pathway, sequence motif, sub-cellular localization, interactions with certain proteins, etc. Gene lists can come from a variety of sources – external databases, internal databases, and calculations performed by GeneSpring. Gene lists can also have a number associated with each gene. This can be any number. When GeneSpring makes a list for which some numbers are appropriate, GeneSpring will automatically associate those numbers with the experiment. For instance, when you find genes with expression patterns like a given gene, the genes will have correlation coefficients associated with them, and will be ordered with the most similar gene first.
