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Mango: Unearthing Patterns in Large-Scale Biological Data Through Interactive Correlation Analysis

Branders, S.; Grabherr, M. G.; Ahmad, R.

2025-10-07 bioinformatics
10.1101/2025.10.06.680608 bioRxiv
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Integrating different types of biological data is often challenging due to the presence of both numerical and categorical data. This complexity makes it harder to evaluate causal biological effects, especially when confounders like population structure, sampling methods, or multi-omics integration can lead to incorrect conclusions. We introduce Mango, an interactive correlation browser designed for visually exploring any tabular data type, using a novel algorithm to correlate numerical and categorical data, regardless of their distribution, called Median-Ranked Label Encoding. Our results on genomic and transcriptomic datasets demonstrate that these correlations can effectively distinguish between biases and causal relationships in large-scale data.

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