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New!Cytoscape 2.6.1

This is a minor bug-fix release that should work with all 2.6.0 plugins.

There are no API changes, however we have added a new centralized logging facility. See Help->Error Console to see Cytoscape's startup messages and any warnings or errors that occur during operation.

Some Bugs that have been fixed include:

  • Topology filter performance
  • XGMML loading consistency
  • Mac usability issues

Cytoscape 2.6.0

Cytoscape 2.6 Screenshot
(Updated 4/11/2008) New features include:
  • Web Service Client Manager
    • Seamless access to Pathway Commons, IntAct, and NCBI Entrez Gene.
    • Synonym import from BioMart.
  • Cytoscape Themes
  • Dynamic Filters
  • Network Manager supports multiple network selection
  • Label Positioning has been improved
  • Session saving occurs in memory
  • XGMML loading/saving optimized
  • Linkout integrated with attribute browser
  • Extra sample Visual Styles using new visual properties
  • Many, many bug fixes!
Cytoscape 2.6.0 release notes

Cytoscape 2.5.2

This is a bug-fix release that addresses issues related to XGMML loading and parsing old vizmap.props files. Enjoy!

Cytoscape 2.5.1

A point release to address a variety of bugs in the 2.5.0 release.

Cytoscape 2.5.0

Cytoscape 2.5 Screenshot
(Updated 7/23/2007) New features include:
  • New VizMapper User Interface
    • More intuitive
    • Continuous mapping editors
    • Visual editor for default view
    • Visual mapping browser
    • Improved visual legend generator
    • Utilities to generate discrete values
  • New Features for Visual Style
    • Transparency (opactiy) support
    • Continuous edge width
    • Color visual property is separated from Arrow and Edge
  • New Filter User Interface
    • Intuitive widgets for basic filters
    • Suggested search values with indexing
    • Options to save in session or globally.
  • Plugin Manager and New Plugin Website
    • Install/Update/Delete plugins from within Cytoscape
    • Search for version compatible plugins from any host site
    • Display list of installed plugins
  • Layout customization
  • Undo and Redo
  • Group API for plugin developers
  • Node stacking
  • Tested on both Java SE 5 and 6
  • Many, many bug fixes!

Publications about Cytoscape

Melissa S Cline, Michael Smoot, Ethan Cerami, Allan Kuchinsky, Nerius Landys, Chris Workman, Rowan Christmas, Iliana Avila-Campilo, Michael Creech, Benjamin Gross, Kristina Hanspers, Ruth Isserlin, Ryan Kelley, Sarah Killcoyne, Samad Lotia, Steven Maere, John Morris, Keiichiro Ono, Vuk Pavlovic, Alexander R Pico, Aditya Vailaya, Peng-Liang Wang, Annette Adler, Bruce R Conklin, Leroy Hood, Martin Kuiper, Chris Sander, Ilya Schmulevich, Benno Schwikowski, Guy J Warner, Trey Ideker & Gary D Bader

Integration of biological networks and gene expression data using Cytoscape

Nature Protocols 2, 2366 - 2382 (2007) Published online: 27 September 2007 | doi:10.1038/nprot.2007.324

[PubMed entry].
Shannon P, Markiel A, Ozier O, Baliga NS, Wang JT, Ramage D, Amin N, Schwikowski B, Ideker T.

Cytoscape: a software environment for integrated models of biomolecular interaction networks.

Genome Research 2003 Nov; 13(11):2498-504

[Abstract] [PDF] [PubMed entry].

Updated! (July 24 2007) Research using Cytoscape

As of July 2007, 281 publications are citing Shannon et al. (2003).

[Link to Publications Page]


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  • DomainGraph decomposes protein interaction networks into their underlying domain interactions. Gene networks can be loaded to visualize the encoded proteins and their domain compositions. Additionally, DomainGraph supports the integration of Affymetrix Exon Array data. Genes, proteins and domains containing differentially [cont.]

New Tutorial: Integrate Networks and Annotations by Web Services.  October 13, 2008
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