General Definitions

Gene Set Name: A brief title for the gene set, approximately sentence length, that should provide a clear and concise description of the contents of a gene set interpretable to most users of GeneWeaver, but with sufficient detail to satisfy a domain expert. This is the major gene set name that is displayed in all search results, project directory and table views of analysis results. Standards for specific gene set types are given in the following section.

Gene Set Figure Label: A brief 23 character abbreviation to facilitate recognition of the gene set in a graph or other display.

Gene Set Description: A detailed description of the gene set, including rules for its construction, experimental methods and analyses used to generate data, anatomical terms, and traceable references to source data including accession information and date. Abbreviations should be avoided.

Ontology Annotations: Relevant terms from Disease Ontology, Mammalian Ontology and other OBO ontologies supplied by curators or identified through the application of the NCBO Annotator to textual descriptions including publication abstracts.

Publication Information: PubMed ID, title, authors, publication information and full-text of the abstract.