par Brohée, Sylvain ;Faust, Karoline ;Lima Mendez, Gipsi ;Sand, Olivier ;Janky, Rekin's ;Vanderstocken, Gilles ;Deville, Yves;van Helden, Jacques
Référence Nucleic acids research, 36, Web Server issue, page (W444-W451)
Publication Publié, 2008-07
Référence Nucleic acids research, 36, Web Server issue, page (W444-W451)
Publication Publié, 2008-07
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | The network analysis tools (NeAT) (http://rsat.ulb.ac.be/neat/) provide a user-friendly web access to a collection of modular tools for the analysis of networks (graphs) and clusters (e.g. microarray clusters, functional classes, etc.). A first set of tools supports basic operations on graphs (comparison between two graphs, neighborhood of a set of input nodes, path finding and graph randomization). Another set of programs makes the connection between networks and clusters (graph-based clustering, cliques discovery and mapping of clusters onto a network). The toolbox also includes programs for detecting significant intersections between clusters/classes (e.g. clusters of co-expression versus functional classes of genes). NeAT are designed to cope with large datasets and provide a flexible toolbox for analyzing biological networks stored in various databases (protein interactions, regulation and metabolism) or obtained from high-throughput experiments (two-hybrid, mass-spectrometry and microarrays). The web interface interconnects the programs in predefined analysis flows, enabling to address a series of questions about networks of interest. Each tool can also be used separately by entering custom data for a specific analysis. NeAT can also be used as web services (SOAP/WSDL interface), in order to design programmatic workflows and integrate them with other available resources. |