Title
A Graphical Tool For The Exploration And Visual Analysis Of Biomolecular Networks
Abstract
Many interactions among bio-molecular entities, e.g. genes, proteins, metabolites, can be easily represented by means of property graphs, i.e. graphs that are annotated both on the vertices (e.g. entity identifier, Gene Ontology or Human Phenotype Ontology terms) and on the edges (the strength of the relationship, the evidence of the source from which the weight has been taken, etc.). These graphs contain a relevant information that can be exploited for conducting different kinds of analysis, such as automatic function prediction, disease gene prioritization, drug repositioning. However, the number and size of the networks are becoming quite large and there is the need of tools that allow the biologists to manage the networks, graphically explore their structures, and organize the visualization and analysis of the graph according to different perspectives. In this paper we introduce the web service that we have developed for the visual analysis of biomolecular networks. Specifically we will show the different functionalities for exploring big networks (that do not fit in the current canvas) starting from a specific vertex, for changing the view perspective of the network, and for navigating the network and thus identifying new relationships. The proposed system extends the functionalities of off-the-shelf graphical visualization tools (e.g. GraphViz and GeneMania) by limiting the production of big cloud of points and allowing further customized visualizations of the network and introducing their vertex-centric exploration.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-030-34585-3_8
COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS, CIBB 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Biological network, Protein function prediction, Information visualization, Graph visualization
Computer science,Human–computer interaction
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
11925
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
11
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheick Tidiane Ba111.11
Elena Casiraghi200.68
Marco Frasca3389.72
Jessica Gliozzo422.16
G. Grossi510421.01
Marco Mesiti683072.53
Marco Notaro701.69
Paolo Perlasca800.34
Alessandro Petrini922.50
Matteo Ré1016411.62
Giorgio Valentini1190556.70