PPGLomics: An Interactive Platform for Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma Transcriptomics

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. Graphical Abstract O_FIG O_LINKSMALLFIG WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=51 SRC="FIGDIR/small/702561v1_ufig1.gif" ALT="Figure 1"> View larger version (16K): org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@3b98daorg.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@b050f4org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1930219org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@6edf18_HPS_FORMAT_FIGEXP M_FIG C_FIG