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# GeneGo Introduction

* Competitor of Ingenuity, offers manually curated pathways and networks, the tools to analyze those groups in the context of various experiments and powerful network building methods.
* Owned by Thomson Reuters
* Major Applications:

1. Access to manually curated databases
2. Evaluation of pathways, networks, annotations and associations as they relate gene lists. These gene lists could be deferentially expressed genes or any other list of genes.
3. Construction of networks based on gene lists using a database of interactions.
   1. GeneGO ontologies
   2. Pathway Maps
   3. Process Networks
   4. GO Processes
   5. Disease (by Biomarkers)
   6. Metabolic Networks

* High quality documentation is available by following Help -> Help


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