Patikaweb: a Web interface for analyzing biological pathways through advanced querying and visualization

  • Authors:
  • U. Dogrusoz;E. Z. Erson;E. Giral;E. Demir;O. Babur;A. Cetintas;R. Colak

  • Affiliations:
  • Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey;Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey;Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey;Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey;Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey;Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey;Bilkent Center for Bioinformatics (BCBI), Bilkent University Ankara 06800, Turkey

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Summary: Patikaweb provides a Web interface for retrieving and analyzing biological pathways in the Patika database, which contains data integrated from various prominent public pathway databases. It features a user-friendly interface, dynamic visualization and automated layout, advanced graph-theoretic queries for extracting biologically important phenomena, local persistence capability and exporting facilities to various pathway exchange formats. Availability: The Web site is freely accessible to non-commercial users from http://web.patika.org Contact: patikaweb@cs.bilkent.edu.tr Supplementary information: Detailed information is available on the tool Web site (http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~patikaweb), including key features, screenshots and User's Guide.