CcNetViz: a WebGL-based JavaScript library for visualization of large networks.
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ABSTRACT: Summary
Visualizing a network provides a concise and practical understanding of the information it represents. Open-source web-based libraries help accelerate the creation of biologically based networks and their use. ccNetViz is an open-source, high speed and lightweight JavaScript library for visualization of large and complex networks. It implements customization and analytical features for easy network interpretation. These features include edge and node animations, which illustrate the flow of information through a network as well as node statistics. Properties can be defined a priori or dynamically imported from models and simulations. ccNetViz is thus a network visualization library particularly suited for systems biology.Availability and implementation
The ccNetViz library, demos and documentation are freely available at http://helikarlab.github.io/ccNetViz/.Supplementary information
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
SUBMITTER: Saska A
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