Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on November 16, 2007
Bioinformatics 2008 24(6):876-877; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm553
BiNoM: a Cytoscape plugin for manipulating and analyzing biological networks
Institut Curie, Service de Bioinformatique, 26 rue dUlm, F-75248 Paris Cedex 05, France
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BiNoM (Biological Network Manager) is a new bioinformatics software that significantly facilitates the usage and the analysis of biological networks in standard systems biology formats (SBML, SBGN, BioPAX). BiNoM implements a full-featured BioPAX editor and a method of interfaces for accessing BioPAX content. BiNoM is able to work with huge BioPAX files such as whole pathway databases. In addition, BiNoM allows the analysis of networks created with CellDesigner software and their conversion into BioPAX format. BiNoM comes as a library and as a Cytoscape plugin which adds a rich set of operations to Cytoscape such as path and cycle analysis, clustering sub-networks, decomposition of network into modules, clipboard operations and others.
Availability: Last version of BiNoM distributed under the LGPL licence together with documentation, source code and API are available at http://bioinfo.curie.fr/projects/binom
Contact: andrei.zinovyev{at}curie.fr
Received on October 5, 2007; revised on October 5, 2007; accepted on October 31, 2007