Tools for visual analysis of biological networks

The trend in tools for visualization and analysis of cell pathways is to go beyond small-scale static depictions of pathways and towards large-scale networks capturing cellular dynamics. Such tools attempt to construct pathways automatically and integrate data from large datasets in genomics, proteomics and transcriptomics to give a more meaningful representation of cell activity. We look at techniques that existing tools use to visualize large networks, to analyze their topology, to find patterns in microarray data and to study cell dynamics in the context of the pathways.