Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on April 15, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(11):1468-1469; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp246
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ViaComplex: software for landscape analysis of gene expression networks in genomic context
1Unidade de Bioinformática, Departamento de Bioquímica, 2Instituto de Física, 3Núcleo de Bioinformática, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Rua Ramiro Barcelos 2600-anexo, Porto Alegre 90035-003 and 4Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria 97105-900, Brazil
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ViaComplex is an open-source application that builds landscape maps of gene expression networks. The motivation for this software comes from two previous publications (Nucleic Acids Res., 35, 1859–1867, 2007; Nucleic Acids Res., 36, 6269–6283, 2008). The first article presents a network-based model of genome stability pathways where we defined a set of genes that characterizes each genetic system. In the second article we analyzed this model by projecting functional information from several experiments onto the gene network topology. In order to systematize the methods developed in these articles, ViaComplex provides tools that may help potential users to assess different high-throughput experiments in the context of six core genome maintenance mechanisms. This model illustrates how different gene networks can be analyzed by the same algorithm.
Availability: http://lief.if.ufrgs.br/pub/biosoftwares/viacomplex
Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Contact: mauro{at}ufrgs.br or rita{at}if.ufrgs.br
Associate editor: Thomas Lengauer
Received on January 13, 2009; revised on March 22, 2009; accepted on April 6, 2009