MetScape released

[Jing Gao]

The CCMB/NCIBI MetScape was released on March 13 2009 to Cytoscape!

You can Download MetScape from Cytoscape plugins websit at
http://chianti.ucsd.edu/cyto_web/plugins/index.php. MetScape is
verified to work in Cytoscape v2.6, v2.6.1 and v2.6.2.

MetScape is a Cytoscape plugin which is used to visualize and analyze
metabolomic data. It uses the data from Edinburgh Human Metabolic
Network reconstruction (Ma et al., Mol Syst Biol. 2007; 3: 135). It
allows user to visualize compound networks and display related
information about reactions, enzymes and pathways. This work was
supported by grant U54DA021519 from NIH.

Version 0.8 (Beta) has the following features:
-There are two different styles for visualizing compound networks:
(1) Both compounds and reactions are represented by nodes, (2) The
compounds are represented by nodes and reactions are represented by
edges. Users can expand and collapse compound network.
-MetScape allows user to display the entire metabolic network or
pathways-specific networks.
-User can apply a pathway filter to a network and create sub
networks from resulting subsets of compounds.
-MetScape allows a user to upload experimental metabolomic data.
Using a modified DynamicXpr plugin, a user can visualize the network
over time or conditions with changing node color (data with 1
parameter) or node color and node size (data with 2 parameters).

Any suggestions and questions please send email to ccmb...@umich.edu

Best regards,

The MetScape team