The EntOptLayout Cytoscape plug-in for the efficient visualization of major protein complexes in protein-protein interaction and signalling networks

Bence Ágg; Andrea Császár; Máté Szalay-Beko; Dániel V. Veres; Réka Mizsei; Péter Ferdinandy; Péter Csermely; István A. Kovács

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz257

The EntOptLayout Cytoscape plug-in for the efficient visualization of major protein complexes in protein-protein interaction and signalling networks

Bence Ágg, Andrea Császár, Máté Szalay-Beko, Dániel V. Veres, Réka Mizsei, Péter Ferdinandy, Péter Csermely^*, István A. Kovács

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Abstract

Motivation: Network visualizations of complex biological datasets usually result in 'hairball' images, which do not discriminate network modules. Results: We present the EntOptLayout Cytoscape plug-in based on a recently developed network representation theory. The plug-in provides an efficient visualization of network modules, which represent major protein complexes in protein-protein interaction and signalling networks. Importantly, the tool gives a quality score of the network visualization by calculating the information loss between the input data and the visual representation showing a 3- to 25-fold improvement over conventional methods. Availability and implementation: The plug-in (running on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS) and its tutorial (both in written and video forms) can be downloaded freely under the terms of the MIT license from: http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/entoptlayout.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4490-4492
Number of pages	3
Journal	Bioinformatics
Volume	35
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz257
State	Published - Nov 1 2019

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This work was supported by the Hungarian National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Grant Nos. NVKP_16-1-2016-0017, B.Á.; KH_17-125570, P.F. and K115378, P.C.) and by the Higher Education Institutional Excellence Programme of the Ministry of Human Capacities in Hungary, within the framework of the Therapeutic Development (P.F.) and Molecular Biology (P.C.) thematic programmes of the Semmelweis University.

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Computer Science Applications
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