| Integration of interactive, multi-scale network navigation approach with Cytoscape for functional genomics in the big data era. | |
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PMID: 23281970 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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BACKGROUND: The overwhelming amount of network data in functional genomics is making its visualization cluttered with jumbling nodes and edges. Such cluttered network visualization, which is known as "hair-balls", is significantly hindering data interpretation and analysis of researchers. Effective navigation approaches that can always abstract network data properly and present them insightfully are hence required, to help researchers interpret the data and acquire knowledge efficiently. Cytoscape is a de facto standard platform for network visualization and analysis, which has many users around the world. Apart from its core sophisticated features, it easily allows for extension of the functionalities by loading extra plug-ins. RESULTS: We developed NaviClusterCS, which enables researchers to interactively navigate large biological networks of ~100,000 nodes in a "Google Maps-like" manner in the Cytoscape environment. NaviClusterCS rapidly and automatically identifies biologically meaningful clusters in large networks, e.g., proteins sharing similar biological functions in protein-protein interaction networks. Then, it displays not all nodes but only preferable numbers of those clusters at any magnification to avoid creating the cluttered network visualization, while its zooming and re-centering functions still enable researchers to interactively analyze the networks in detail. Its application to a real Arabidopsis co-expression network dataset illustrated a practical use of the tool for suggesting knowledge that is hidden in large biological networks and difficult to be obtained using other visualization methods. CONCLUSIONS: NaviClusterCS provides interactive and multi-scale network navigation to a wide range of biologists in the big data era, via the de facto standard platform for network visualization. It can be freely downloaded at http://navicluster.cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cs/ and installed as a plug-in of Cytoscape. |
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Thanet Praneenararat; Toshihisa Takagi; Wataru Iwasaki |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2012-12-13 |
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Title: BMC genomics Volume: 13 Suppl 7 ISSN: 1471-2164 ISO Abbreviation: BMC Genomics Publication Date: 2012 |
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Created Date: 2013-01-03 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100965258 Medline TA: BMC Genomics Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: S24 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Computational Biology, the University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8568, Japan. thanet@cb.k.u-tokyo.ac.jp. |
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