Revealing subnetwork roles using contextual visualization: comparison of metabolic networks

Romain Bourqui (1, 2) , Fabien Jourdan (3)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 GRAVITE - Graph Visualization and Interactive Exploration
3 INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

This article is addressing a recurrent problem in biology: mining newly built large scale networks. Our approach consists in comparing these new networks to well known ones. The visual backbone of this comparative analysis is provided by a network classification hierarchy. This method makes sense when dealing with metabolic networks since comparison could be done using pathways (clusters). Moreover each network models an organism and it exists organism classification such as taxonomies. Video demonstration: http://www.labri.fr/perso/bourqui/video.wmv

Mots clés: Information visualization; metabolic networks comparison; bioinformatic

Domaines: Bio-Informatique, Biologie Systémique [q-bio.QM]; Autre [cs.OH]

Romain Bourqui, Fabien Jourdan. Revealing subnetwork roles using contextual visualization: comparison of metabolic networks. 12th International Conference on Information Visualisation, Jul 2008, London, United Kingdom. pp.638-643. ⟨hal-00343889⟩