Pathway Preserving Representation of Metabolic Networks

dc.contributor.authorLambert, Antoineen_US
dc.contributor.authorDubois, J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBourqui, Romainen_US
dc.contributor.editorH. Hauser, H. Pfister, and J. J. van Wijken_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-21T20:23:43Z
dc.date.available2014-02-21T20:23:43Z
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.description.abstractImprovements in biological data acquisition and genomes sequencing now allow to reconstruct entire metabolic networks of many living organisms. The size and complexity of these networks prohibit manual drawing and thereby urge the need of dedicated visualization techniques. An efficient representation of such a network should preserve the topological information of metabolic pathways while respecting biological drawing conventions. These constraints complicate the automatic generation of such visualization as it raises graph drawing issues. In this paper we propose a method to lay out the entire metabolic network while preserving the pathway information as much as possible. That method is flexible as it enables the user to define whether or not node duplication should be performed, to preserve or not the network topology. Our technique combines partitioning, node placement and edge bundling to provide a pseudo-orthogonal visualization of the metabolic network. To ease pathway information retrieval, we also provide complementary interaction tools that emphasize relevant pathways in the entire metabolic context.en_US
dc.description.number3en_US
dc.description.seriesinformationComputer Graphics Forumen_US
dc.description.volume30en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01951.xen_US
dc.identifier.issn1467-8659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8659.2011.01951.xen_US
dc.publisherThe Eurographics Association and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.en_US
dc.subjectI.3.3 [Computer Graphics]en_US
dc.subjectPicture/Image Generationen_US
dc.subjectLine and curve generationen_US
dc.titlePathway Preserving Representation of Metabolic Networksen_US
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