New Plugin! Mosaic for GO-based Annotation and Visualization of Networks

[Alexander Pico]

We are pleased to announce the first beta release of the Mosaic plugin. This is the first of a suite of plugins under development for annotating, analyzing and visualizing networks with Gene Ontology terms.  Mosaic uses all three branches of GO to:

• Partition into subnetworks based on Biological Process terms
• Layout each subnetwork using a cellular template based on Cellular Component terms
• Color nodes based on Molecular Function terms
  

Start with a network having any standard gene identifiers and Mosaic will retrieve GO annotations ("full" or "slim" versions) and then perform the partitioning, layout and coloring with a single click. Find more details and download the jar file from:   

    http://nrnb.org/tools/mosaic


Screenshot of Mosaic results.


This work was developed as a collaboration between the National Resource for Network Biology (http://nrnb.org), the University of Missouri, and Columbia University, funded by Google Summer of Code and NIH RR031228. We'd also like to acknowledge preceding work on BubbleRouter and GOLayout as open source plugins developed in collaboration with Agilent Technologies.