[BioC] correlation between two pathways' genes

[Paul Geeleher]

I think you'd first have to summarize the "expression level" of each
pathway somehow, the easiest thing to do is probably to summarize them
by their median. Then calculate the corrleation between the median of
each of your pathways.

Paul.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Alyaa Mahmoud <alyamahmoud at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Group
>
> I would like to find if the genes of two different pathways are correlated
> or anti-correlated or no correlation at all. The number of genes in the two
> pathways are different, that's why a simple scatter plot will not be
> effective. Is there a simple way I can do this ?
>
> Thank you very much
> Alyaa Mahmoud
>
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