New Skyrails Release : The Interactorium

[Yose Widjaja]

Hello All,

I've just finished the work on the latest release of Skyrails, but it's not really a release for Skyrails. Rather, it's a tool for biological visualization of the Yeast Interactome. Proper Skyrails release will follow after I clear up which data I can distribute and which can't, and once I clean stuff up..

For those that has no biology background (I didn't too, before I started working on this), basically proteins are the little molecular machines which makes the cells in your body (and animal bodies, bacterias etc) work. Decades of research have produced plenty of data regarding these little molecular machines and how they interact, but there's just so many of them. So people started making protein-protein interaction graphs out of these.

Here, the Interactorium integrates localization information (aka compartments, such as nucleus, nucleolus, bud, mitochondrion) into the visualization. Probably the best way to know is to look at the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTHtYZcH6fk

Flickr photoset:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14933315@N05/sets/72157610707590708/

Download here:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~wyos/interactorium/interactoriumdist.zip

Also, you probably need a fast computer for this, if you want to have a good experience. There's 4000 nodes being displayed all at once (actually a bit more than that, when you count the complexes as a node themselves).

Please tell me what you think.

Cheers

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Yose Widjaja
CEO @ Jormy Games
www.jormy.com
yo...@y0se.com
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