Genomics Inform.
2009 Sep;7(3):171-174.
J2.5dPathway: A 2.5D Visualization Tool to Display Selected Nodes in Biological Pathways, in Parallel Planes
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Computer Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea. neo@ewha.ac.kr
- 2Department of Architectural Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, Korea.
Abstract
- The characteristics of metabolic pathways make them particularly amenable to layered graph drawing methods. This paper presents a visual Java-based tool for drawing and annotating biological pathways in twoand- a-half dimensions (2.5D) as an alternative to three dimensional (3D) visualizations. Such visualization allows user to display different groups of clustered nodes, in different parallel planes, and to see a detailed view of a group of objects in focus and its place in the context of the whole system. This tool is an extended version of J2dPathway.