i have RNA transcriptomic data and i would like to select a pathway for further analysis, but in transcriptomic ,have many pathways, so on which basis, and how to select a specific path way?
You can do a quick ontology enrichment with gene lists using the web tools for reactome, panther, GO or other public ontologies (just search for any of those, upload your gene lists and run the analysis). An over-representation analysis will tell you how many and what elements in your gene list overlap with the defined elements in an ontology pathway as well as a p-value (or FDR) of the significance of that overlap. An established best practice for picking gene lists for over-representation analysis is to pick those that are both statistically significantly differentially expressed (typically with an FDR