If you have benefitted from any methods or results inspired by g:Profiler since we launched the new version then please cite the 2023 paper.
  • Liis Kolberg, Uku Raudvere, Ivan Kuzmin, Priit Adler, Jaak Vilo, Hedi Peterson: g:Profiler—interoperable web service for functional enrichment analysis and gene identifier mapping (2023 update) Nucleic Acids Research, May 2023; doi:10.1093/nar/gkad347 [PDF].
If you have been using the previous versions or keep using the old archives then please cite the original 2007 paper (Reimand et al, 2007).
  • Jüri Reimand, Meelis Kull, Hedi Peterson, Jaanus Hansen, Jaak Vilo: g:Profiler — a web-based toolset for functional profiling of gene lists from large-scale experiments. (2007) Nucleic Acids Research 35 Web Server issue doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkm226[PDF].
Other update papers:
  • Uku Raudvere, Liis Kolberg, Ivan Kuzmin, Tambet Arak, Priit Adler, Hedi Peterson, Jaak Vilo: g:Profiler: a web server for functional enrichment analysis and conversions of gene lists (2019 update) Nucleic Acids Research 2019; doi:10.1093/nar/gkz369 [PDF].
  • Jüri Reimand, Tambet Arak, Priit Adler, Liis Kolberg, Sulev Reisberg, Hedi Peterson, Jaak Vilo: g:Profiler -- a web server for functional interpretation of gene lists (2016 update) Nucleic Acids Research 2016; doi:10.1093/nar/gkw199 [PDF].
  • Jüri Reimand, Tambet Arak, Jaak Vilo: g:Profiler -- a web server for functional interpretation of gene lists (2011 update) Nucleic Acids Research 2011; doi:10.1093/nar/gkr378 [PDF].

We encourage users to also cite the version of the database they used. This information is available on the resulting Manhattan plot and Query info tab.
An example for citation: "The functional enrichment analysis was performed using g:Profiler (version e114_eg62_p19_14695b7b) with g:SCS multiple testing correction method applying significance threshold of 0.05 (Kolberg, Raudvere et al 2023)".