DrugViz: a Cytoscape plugin for visualizing and analyzing small molecule drugs in biological networks

Bioinformatics. 2008 Sep 15;24(18):2117-8. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn389. Epub 2008 Jul 25.

Abstract

Summary: DrugViz is a Cytoscape plugin that is designed to visualize and analyze small molecules within the framework of the interactome. DrugViz can import drug-target network information in an extended SIF file format to Cytoscape and display the two-dimensional (2D) structures of small molecule nodes in a unified visualization environment. It also can identify small molecule nodes by means of three different 2D structure searching methods, namely isomorphism, substructure and fingerprint-based similarity searches. After selections, users can furthermore conduct a two-side clustering analysis on drugs and targets, which allows for a detailed analysis of the active compounds in the network, and elucidate relationships between these drugs and targets. DrugViz represents a new tool for the analysis of data from chemogenomics, metabolomics and systems biology.

Availability: DrugViz and data set used in Application are freely available for download at http://202.127.30.184:8080/software.html.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics
  • Computer Simulation
  • Databases, Factual
  • Databases, Protein
  • Drug Design
  • Pharmaceutical Preparations / chemistry*
  • Proteome / metabolism
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Pharmaceutical Preparations
  • Proteome