GenePro: a cytoscape plug-in for advanced visualization and analysis of interaction networks

  • Authors:
  • James Vlasblom;Samuel Wu;Shuye Pu;Mark Superina;Gina Liu;Chris Orsi;Shoshana J. Wodak

  • Affiliations:
  • Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada;Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada;Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada;Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada;Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada;Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada;Structural Biology and Biochemistry Program, The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X8, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Bioinformatics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Motivation: Analyzing the networks of interactions between genes and proteins has become a central theme in systems biology. Versatile software tools for interactively displaying and analyzing these networks are therefore very much in demand. The public-domain open software environment Cytoscape has been developed with the goal of facilitating the design and development of such software tools by the scientific community. Results: We present GenePro, a plugin to Cytoscape featuring a set of versatile tools that greatly facilitates the visualization and analysis of protein networks derived from high-throughput interactions data and the validation of various methods for parsing these networks into meaningful functional modules. Availability: The GenePro plugin is available at the website http://genepro.ccb.sickkids.ca contact: shuyepu@sickkids.ca