Escher: A Web Application for Building, Sharing, and Embedding Data-Rich Visualizations of Biological Pathways

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  King, Zachary A ^a   Dräger, Andreas ^a,b   Ebrahim, Ali ^a   Sonnenschein, Nikolaus ^c   Lewis, Nathan E ^d   Palsson, Bernhard O ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROTEINS;

BIOLOGICAL PATHWAYS; DATATYPES; EFFECTIVE TOOL; EMBEDDINGS; GENOME-SCALE MODEL; KEY FEATURE; PATHWAY VISUALIZATION; USER DATA; WEB APPLICATION; WEB APPLICATIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ESCHER; GENOME ANALYSIS; LINEAR SYSTEM; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; SCALABLE VECTOR GRAPHICS; SIMULATION; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WEB BROWSER; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERNET; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTERNET; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84940751701     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004321     Document Type: Article

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