Bioinformatics Advance Access published online on October 16, 2009
Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp595
NAViGaTOR: Network Analysis, Visualization & Graphing Toronto
1Division of Signaling Biology, Ontario Cancer Institute and the University Health Network, Toronto, ON, 2Department of Software and IT Engineering, École de technologie supérieure, Montreal, QC, 3Departments of Medical Biophysics and Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Igor Jurisica, E-mail: juris{at}ai.utoronto.ca
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Summary: NAViGaTOR is a powerful graphing application for the 2D and 3D visualization of biological networks. NAViGaTOR includes a rich suite of visual mark-up tools for manual and automated annotation, fast and scalable layout algorithms, and OpenGL hardware acceleration to facilitate the visualization of large graphs. Publication-quality images can be rendered through SVG graphics export. NAViGaTOR supports community-developed data formats (PSI-XML, BioPax, and GML), is platform-independent, and is extensible through a plug-in architecture.
Availability: NAViGaTOR is freely available to the research community from http://ophid.utoronto.ca/navigator/. Installers and documentation are provided for 32- and 64-bit Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix.
Contact: juris{at}ai.utoronto.ca
Associate Editor: Dr. Jonathan Wren
Received on July 22, 2009; revised on September 21, 2009; accepted on October 11, 2009