Thanks a lot Paul for the suggestion.


On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Paul Geeleher <paulgeeleher@gmail.com>wrote:

> 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@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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