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An R interface to the Enrichr database

Wajid Jawaid 2023-04-12

Installation

enrichR can be installed from Github or from CRAN.

Github

library(devtools)
install_github("wjawaid/enrichR")

CRAN

The package can be downloaded from CRAN using:

install.packages("enrichR")

Usage example

enrichR provides an interface to the Enrichr database (Kuleshov et al. 2016) hosted at https://maayanlab.cloud/Enrichr/.

By default human genes are selected otherwise select your organism of choice. (This functionality was contributed by Alexander Blume)

library(enrichR)
listEnrichrSites()
#> Enrichr ... Connection is Live!
#> FlyEnrichr ... Connection is available!
#> WormEnrichr ... Connection is available!
#> YeastEnrichr ... Connection is available!
#> FishEnrichr ... Connection is available!
#> OxEnrichr ... Connection is available!
setEnrichrSite("Enrichr") # Human genes
#> Connection changed to https://maayanlab.cloud/Enrichr/
#> Connection is Live!

Then find the list of all available databases from Enrichr.

dbs <- listEnrichrDbs()
head(dbs)
geneCoveragegenesPerTermlibraryNamenumTermsappytercategoryId
13362275Genome_Browser_PWMs615ea115789fcbf12797fd692cec6df0ab4dbc79c6a1
278841284TRANSFAC_and_JASPAR_PWMs3267d42eb43a64a4e3b20d721fc7148f685b53b6b301
600277Transcription_Factor_PPIs290849f222220618e2599d925b6b51868cf1dab37631
471721370ChEA_20133537ebe772afb55b63b41b79dd8d06ea0fdd9fa26307
47107509Drug_Perturbations_from_GEO_2014701ad270a6876534b7cb063e004289dcd4d3164f3427
214933713ENCODE_TF_ChIP-seq_2014498497787ebc418d308045efb63b8586f10c526af517

View and select your favourite databases. Then query enrichr, in this case I have used genes associated with embryonic haematopoiesis.

dbs <- c("GO_Molecular_Function_2015", "GO_Cellular_Component_2015", "GO_Biological_Process_2015")
enriched <- enrichr(c("Runx1", "Gfi1", "Gfi1b", "Spi1", "Gata1", "Kdr"), dbs)
#> Uploading data to Enrichr... Done.
#>   Querying GO_Molecular_Function_2015... Done.
#>   Querying GO_Cellular_Component_2015... Done.
#>   Querying GO_Biological_Process_2015... Done.
#> Parsing results... Done.

Now view the results table.

enriched[["GO_Biological_Process_2015"]]

You can give many genes.

data(genes790)
length(genes790)
head(enrichr(genes790, c('LINCS_L1000_Chem_Pert_up'))[[1]])
TermOverlapP.valueAdjusted.P.valueOld.P.valueOld.Adjusted.P.valueOdds.RatioCombined.ScoreGenes
embryonic hemopoiesis (GO_0035162)3/240.0e+000.000008300951.095216465.833KDR;GATA1;RUNX1
regulation of myeloid cell differentiation (GO_0045637)4/1561.0e-070.000008300261.07894374.968GFI1B;SPI1;GATA1;RUNX1
regulation of erythrocyte differentiation (GO_0045646)3/361.0e-070.000011200604.87889710.235GFI1B;SPI1;GATA1
positive regulation of myeloid cell differentiation (GO_0045639)3/741.0e-060.000076200280.60563886.803GFI1B;GATA1;RUNX1
hemopoiesis (GO_0030097)3/952.1e-060.000129900216.32612832.846KDR;GATA1;RUNX1
hematopoietic progenitor cell differentiation (GO_0002244)3/1062.9e-060.000150700193.11652465.031SPI1;GATA1;RUNX1

Plot Enrichr GO-BP output. (Plotting function contributed by I-Hsuan Lin)

plotEnrich(enriched[[3]], showTerms = 20, numChar = 40, y = "Count", orderBy = "P.value")

References2

Kuleshov, Maxim V., Matthew R. Jones, Andrew D. Rouillard, Nicolas F. Fernandez, Qiaonan Duan, Zichen Wang, Simon Koplev, et al. 2016. “Enrichr: A Comprehensive Gene Set Enrichment Analysis Web Server 2016 Update.” Nucleic Acids Res 44 (Web Server issue): W90–97.

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Install

install.packages('enrichR')

Monthly Downloads

5,574

Version

3.2

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Wajid Jawaid

Last Published

April 14th, 2023

Functions in enrichR (3.2)

enrichr

Gene enrichment using Enrichr
genes790

790 gene symbols
printEnrich

printEnrich
getEnrichr

Helper function for GET
listEnrichrDbs

Look up available databases on Enrichr
listEnrichrSites

List Enrichr Websites
plotEnrich

plotEnrich
enrichR-package

enrichR package
.onAttach

onLoad hook to setup package options
setEnrichrSite

Set Enrichr Website