Title
PetriScape - A plugin for discrete Petri net simulations in Cytoscape.
Abstract
Systems biology plays a central role for biological network analysis in the post-genomic era. Cytoscape is the standard bioinformatics tool offering the community an extensible platform for computational analysis of the emerging cellular network together with experimental omics data sets. However, only few apps/plugins/tools are available for simulating network dynamics in Cytoscape 3. Many approaches of varying complexity exist but none of them have been integrated into Cytoscape as app/plugin yet. Here, we introduce PetriScape, the first Petri net simulator for Cytoscape. Although discrete Petri nets are quite simplistic models, they are capable of modeling global network properties and simulating their behaviour. In addition, they are easily understood and well visualizable. PetriScape comes with the following main functionalities: (1) import of biological networks in SBML format, (2) conversion into a Petri net, (3) visualization as Petri net, and (4) simulation and visualization of the token flow in Cytoscape. PetriScape is the first Cytoscape plugin for Petri nets. It allows a straightforward Petri net model creation, simulation and visualization with Cytoscape, providing clues about the activity of key components in biological networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.2390/biecoll-jib-2016-284
JOURNAL OF INTEGRATIVE BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Network dynamics,Petri net,Biological network,Computer science,Visualization,Systems biology,Software,Plug-in,Bioinformatics,SBML
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1613-4516
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Diogo Almeida151.41
Vasco Azevedo2285.93
Artur Silva312.73
Jan Baumbach414822.11