Bioinformatics KEGG Pathway Visualization in R | RNA-Seq Analysis

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Setup & Data Prep
GO Enrichment
KEGG Enrichment
Pathway Plotting
p53 Pathway Case

Setup & Data Prep

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    Loads R packages for pathway analysis: pathview, gage, and gage data.

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    Creates a named vector of log fold changes mapped to Entrez gene IDs.

Basic proficiency in R programming, including package installation, data frame manipulation, and loading libraries from Bioconductor.
Fundamentals of RNA-Seq data analysis, specifically how differential expression analysis (using tools like DESeq2 or edgeR) yields log fold changes and adjusted p-values.
Core concepts of biological pathways (e.g., metabolic or signaling pathways) and the hierarchical structure of Gene Ontology (GO) terms.
Understanding gene annotation systems and database identifiers (such as Entrez IDs, Ensembl IDs, and Gene Symbols) and the necessity of mapping between them.
Exploring advanced gene set analysis methods, such as Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) and single-sample GSEA (ssGSEA) for heterogeneous datasets.
Integrating multi-omics data (e.g., transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics) onto unified KEGG pathways to gain a systems-level view.
Utilizing network analysis and interactive visualization tools like Cytoscape (and the RCy3 package in R) to build custom biological networks.
Translating statistical pathway enrichment results into biological hypotheses and designing downstream wet-lab experiments for target validation.
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This video demonstrates how to visualize KEGG pathways in R using the pathview and gage packages, showing how to analyze differentially expressed genes from DESeq2 objects to identify enriched biological pathways, with a detailed example of the P53 pathway where pathway-level upregulation can occur even when individual P53 gene expression shows conflicting results due to compensatory changes in downstream targets.