%A Clark, Neil R. %A Ma'ayan, Avi %T Introduction to Statistical Methods for Analyzing Large Data Sets: Gene-Set Enrichment Analysis %0 Journal Article %D 2011 %J Sci. Signal. %R 10.1126/scisignal.2001966 %P tr4- %V 4 %N 190 %U http://stke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sigtrans;4/190/tr4 %8 September 13, 2011 %X This Teaching Resource provides lecture notes, slides, and a problem set for a series of lectures introducing the mathematical concepts behind gene-set enrichment analysis (GSEA) and were part of a course entitled "Systems Biology: Biomedical Modeling." GSEA is a statistical functional enrichment analysis commonly applied to identify enrichment of biological functional categories in sets of ranked differentially expressed genes from genome-wide mRNA expression data sets.