VisANT: data-integrating visual framework for biological networks and modules
Open Access
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 33 (Web Server), W352-W357
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gki431
Abstract
VisANT is a web-based software framework for visualizing and analyzing many types of networks of biological interactions and associations. Networks are a useful computational tool for representing many types of biological data, such as biomolecular interactions, cellular pathways and functional modules. Given user-defined sets of interactions or groupings between genes or proteins, VisANT provides: (i) a visual interface for combining and annotating network data, (ii) supporting function and annotation data for different genomes from the Gene Ontology and KEGG databases and (iii) the statistical and analytical tools needed for extracting topological properties of the user-defined networks. Users can customize, modify, save and share network views with other users, and import basic network data representations from their own data sources, and from standard exchange formats such as PSI-MI and BioPAX. The software framework we employ also supports the development of more sophisticated visualization and analysis functions through its open API for Java-based plug-ins. VisANT is distributed freely via the web at http://visant.bu.edu and can also be downloaded for individual use.Keywords
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