We’ve added to ERGO’s rich visualizations with a new plot type: the violin plot. A violin plot is a way to visualize an underlying distribution of values (in our case, log fold change). Similar in utility to a box plot, a violin plot has a few advantages. Instead of just representing the median, quartiles, minimum and maximum, a violin plot uses a kernel density estimation algorithm to visualize the distribution of underlying points.

Quickly identify significantly up and down regulated pathway and functional categories using ERGO’s gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA). Gene set enrichment analysis detects concordant movement of gene sets between two phenotypes, usually experimental conditions. In this way the researcher can identify the statistically significant pathways and infer the effect the experimental conditions had upon their organism of study.