tspex: a tissue-specificity calculator for gene expression data

Abstract

Abstract When comparing gene expression data of different tissues it is often interesting to identify tissue-specific genes or transcripts. Even though there are several metrics to measure tissue-specificity, a user-friendly tool that facilitates this analysis is not available yet. We present tspex, a software that allows easy computation of a comprehensive set of different tissue-specificity metrics from gene expression data. tspex can be used through a web interface, command-line or the Python API. Its package version also provides visualization functions that facilitate inspection of results. The documentation and the source code of tspex are available at https://apcamargo.github.io/tspex/ and the web application can be accessed at https://tspex.lge.ibi.unicamp.br/