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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
PathVisio-Faceted Search: an exploration tool for multi-dimensional navigation of large pathways
Jake Y Fried1, Martijn P van Iersel, Mirit I Aladjem
1Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20740, USA. jakeyfried@gmail.com
Purpose:
The PathVisio-Faceted Search plugin helps users explore and understand complex pathways by overlaying experimental data and data from webservices, such as Ensembl BioMart, onto diagrams drawn using formalized notations in PathVisio. The plugin then provides a filtering mechanism, known as a faceted search, to find and highlight diagram nodes (e.g. genes and proteins) of interest based on imported data. The tool additionally provides a flexible scripting mechanism to handle complex queries.
Availability:
The PathVisio-Faceted Search plugin is compatible with PathVisio 3.0 and above. PathVisio is compatible with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The plugin, documentation, example diagrams and Groovy scripts are available at http://PathVisio.org/wiki/PathVisioFacetedSearchHelp. The plugin is free, open-source and licensed by the Apache 2.0 License.
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