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ScyNet: Visualizing interactions in community metabolic models
Michael Predl1,2, Kilian Gandolf1, Michael Hofer1
1Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Motivation:
Genome-scale community metabolic models are used to gain mechanistic insights into interactions between community members. However, existing tools for visualizing metabolic models only cater to the needs of single organism models.
Results:
ScyNet is a Cytoscape app for visualizing community metabolic models, generating networks with reduced complexity by focusing on interactions between community members. ScyNet can incorporate the state of a metabolic model via fluxes or flux ranges, which is shown in a previously published simplified cystic fibrosis airway community model.
Availability And Implementation:
ScyNet is freely available under an MIT licence and can be retrieved via the Cytoscape App Store (apps.cytoscape.org/apps/scynet). The source code is available at Github (github.com/univieCUBE/ScyNet).
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