A flexible visualization tool for interaction

One of the major design goals for the biological visualization network tool is flexibility. VisANT is a flexible visualization tool which can visualize and analyze many types of interactions and associations between biological components. VisANT enables parsers and filters, providing the flexible interfaces to facilitate the integration of heterogeneous data sources and third-party´s analysis. In our work, we use VisANT and visml which is an exchangeable and editable XML file that have visual markup and annotation of network layouts to manipulate the nodes which represent biological components, the edges which represent their associations include pathway associations and the graph layout freely. And we create the user-defined network finally. VisANT is available at http://visant.bu.edu and the introduction of visml is available at http://visant.bu.edu/misi/visML.htm.