Pathway_similarity {SIGN}

Pathway_similarity is a function for calculating correlation between expression level of pathways between 2 groups using all the available approaches in SIGN

Description

Pathway_similarity is a function for calculating correlation between expression level of pathways between 2 groups using all the available approaches in SIGN

Usage

Pathway_similarity(ExpMat1, ExpMat2, GeneVec, GeneSets, Name)

Arguments

ExpMat1

Expression matrix of genes in the 1st group of sampls

ExpMat2

Expression matrix of genes in the 2nd group of sampls

GeneVec

Name of genes in the same order as considered in ExpMat1 and ExpMat2

GeneSets

List of genes within pathways

Name

Name used for naming the columns of output matrix of correlation between the 2 groups

Value

Similarity of the pathway between the two expression matrices using pearson correlation, bubble sort, and wilcoxon paaired rank test