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	Uchanganuzi wa Uboreshaji wa Njia	Uchanganuzi wa Uboreshaji wa Njia Kulingana na Mtandao
Nyanja	Bioinformatiki	Bioinformatiki
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Mwaka wa asili	2003–2005	2002 (seminal network-scoring concept); matured 2010–2015
Mwanzilishi	Mootha et al. (2003); systematised by Subramanian et al. (2005)	Ideker, Ozier, Schwikowski, and Siegel (network-based scoring); extended by Vaske et al. (PARADIGM) and others
Aina	Statistical functional annotation method	Pathway enrichment and network analysis method
Chanzo asilia	Subramanian, A., Tamayo, P., Mootha, V. K., Mukherjee, S., Ebert, B. L., Gillette, M. A., Paulovich, A., Pomeroy, S. L., Golub, T. R., Lander, E. S., & Mesirov, J. P. (2005). Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(43), 15545–15550.	Ideker, T., Ozier, O., Schwikowski, B., & Siegel, A. F. (2002). Discovering regulatory and signalling circuits in molecular interaction networks. Bioinformatics, 18(suppl_1), S233–S240.
Majina mbadala	PEA, overrepresentation analysis, ORA, functional enrichment analysis	network pathway enrichment, network-based enrichment, topology-based pathway analysis, NBPEA
Zinazohusiana	6	1
Muhtasari	Pathway enrichment analysis (PEA) is a statistical approach that takes a list of genes or proteins of interest — typically derived from a differential expression or proteomics experiment — and identifies which pre-defined biological pathways or functional gene sets are represented more often than expected by chance. By mapping individual molecular changes onto curated pathway knowledge bases such as KEGG, Gene Ontology, or Reactome, PEA translates long gene lists into interpretable biological processes, making it a central tool in the post-analysis of high-throughput omics experiments.	Network-based pathway enrichment analysis integrates molecular interaction networks — protein-protein interactions, signalling graphs, or gene regulatory networks — with omics measurements to identify biological pathways that are coordinately altered in a condition. Unlike classical over-representation or gene-set enrichment approaches that treat pathway genes as independent lists, this family of methods propagates signals across network edges, capturing the topology of interactions and uncovering dysregulated modules that flat-list enrichment would miss.