Publication Date:
2019-04-20
Description:
Motivation Network visualizations of complex biological datasets usually result in ‘hairball’ images, which do not discriminate network modules. Results We present the EntOptLayout Cytoscape plug-in based on a recently developed network representation theory. The plug-in provides an efficient visualization of network modules, which represent major protein complexes in protein–protein interaction and signalling networks. Importantly, the tool gives a quality score of the network visualization by calculating the information loss between the input data and the visual representation showing a 3- to 25-fold improvement over conventional methods. Availability and implementation The plug-in (running on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS) and its tutorial (both in written and video forms) can be downloaded freely under the terms of the MIT license from: http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/entoptlayout. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Print ISSN:
1367-4803
Electronic ISSN:
1460-2059
Topics:
Biology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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