Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on April 28, 2008
Bioinformatics 2008 24(12):1465-1466; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn208
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Cytoscape ESP: simple search of complex biological networks
1Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel, 2Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA and 4Center for Computational Medicine and Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Summary: Cytoscape enhanced search plugin (ESP) enables searching complex biological networks on multiple attribute fields using logical operators and wildcards. Queries use an intuitive syntax and simple search line interface. ESP is implemented as a Cytoscape plugin and complements existing search functions in the Cytoscape network visualization and analysis software, allowing users to easily identify nodes, edges and subgraphs of interest, even for very large networks.
Availabiity: http://chianti.ucsd.edu/cyto_web/plugins/
Contact: ashkenaz{at}agri.huji.ac.il
Received on November 14, 2007; revised on January 17, 2008; accepted on April 23, 2008