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PPGLomics: An Interactive Platform for Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma Transcriptomics
Hussam Alkaissi1, Catherine M Gordon2, Karel Pacak2,3,4,5
1National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Abstract:
Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL) are rare neuroendocrine tumors with unique biological behavior and remarkably high heritability, yet dedicated bioinformatics resources for these diagnoses remain limited. Existing cancer multi-omics platforms are pan-cancer in scope, often lacking the disease-specific annotations, granularity, and cross-database harmonization required for meaningful stratification and hypothesis generation. Here we introduce PPGLomics, an interactive web-based platform designed for comprehensive PPGL transcriptomics analysis. PPGLomics v1.0 integrates two major datasets, the TCGA-PCPG cohort (n=160) spanning multiple molecular subtypes, and the A5 consortium SDHB cohort (n=91) with detailed clinicopathological and molecular annotations. The platform provides basic and clinical scientists, as well as a broad range of healthcare professionals, with tools for differential expression analysis, correlation analysis, survival analysis, and visualization, including boxplots, heatmaps, volcano plots, and Kaplan-Meier survival plots, enabling exploration of gene expression patterns across PPGL subtypes without requiring bioinformatics expertise. PPGLomics v1.0 is freely available at https://alkaissilab.shinyapps.io/PPGLomics.
