方法对比

	贝叶斯通路富集分析	基因集富集分析 (GSEA)
领域	生物信息学	生物信息学
方法族	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
起源年份	2001–2007	2005 (seminal PNAS paper; predecessor concept in Mootha et al. 2003)
提出者	Pierre Baldi, Anthony Long; Michael Newton et al. (foundational Bayesian gene-set frameworks)	Aravind Subramanian, Pablo Tamayo, Vamsi K. Mootha, Jill P. Mesirov, Todd R. Golub, Eric S. Lander et al. (Broad Institute)
类型	Probabilistic gene-set testing	Functional genomics / enrichment analysis
开创性文献	Baldi, P., & Long, A. D. (2001). A Bayesian framework for the analysis of microarray expression data: regularized t-test and statistical inferences of gene changes. Bioinformatics, 17(6), 509–519.	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.
别名	Bayesian gene-set testing, Bayesian GSEA, Bayesian functional enrichment, BGSEA	GSEA, gene-set analysis, functional enrichment analysis, pathway-level enrichment
相关	6	5
摘要	Bayesian pathway enrichment analysis tests whether a predefined set of genes — a biological pathway — is systematically overrepresented among genes that show evidence of differential activity in an experiment. Unlike classical over-representation tests, it encodes prior biological knowledge as a prior distribution and updates it with the observed expression data, yielding posterior probabilities of enrichment rather than p-values. This probabilistic framing naturally handles small samples, multiple pathways, and uncertainty propagation in a coherent statistical framework.	Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA) is a computational method that determines whether a predefined set of genes — representing a biological pathway, process, or function — shows statistically significant, coordinated differences between two biological conditions. Unlike simple fold-change filtering, GSEA operates on all measured genes ranked by a correlation metric, detecting subtle but consistent shifts across an entire pathway even when no single gene passes a significance threshold.