NetworkPainter: dynamic intracellular pathway animation in Cytobank

Jonathan R Karr1,2, Harendra Guturu3, Edward Y Chen4

  • 1Graduate Program in Biophysics, Stanford University, 443 Via Ortega, MC 4245, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA. jkarr@stanfordalumni.org.

BMC Bioinformatics
|May 25, 2015
PubMed
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