GIANT v2

Genome-scale Integrated Analysis of gene Networks in Tissues

Tissue-specific Interactions

GIANT leverages a tissue-specific gold standard to automatically up-weight datasets relevant to a tissue from a large data compendium of diverse tissues and cell-types. The resulting functional networks accurately capture tissue-specific functional interactions.

Multi-tissue Analysis

Beyond questions pertaining to the role of single genes in single tissues, GIANT also enables examination of changes in gene function across tissues on a broad scale. Users can compare a gene's functional interaction in different tissues by selecting the relevant tissues in the dropdown menu.

NetWAS Analysis

GIANT can effectively reprioritize functional associations from a genome-wide association study (GWAS) and potentially identify additional disease-associated genes. The approach, named NetWAS, can be applied to any GWAS study, and does not require that the phenotype or disease have any known associated genes.

Citation

Wong AK, Krishnan A, Troyanskaya OG (2018). GIANT 2.0: genome-scale integrated analysis of gene networks in tissues. Nucleic Acids Research. 10.1093/nar/gky408.