Biomolecular network visualization based on CPSE-Bio

Biomolecular network is an important research subject of the bioinformatics. A crucial step in biological studies is to understand the biomolecular networks. Visualization is helpful for complex biomolecular network analysis because the network scale is rapidly expanding along with the growth of biological data sets. A novel biomolecular network visualization tool, BNVC (Biomolecular Network Visualization based on Cytoscape Web) has been developed on CPSE-Bio (Cloud based Problem Solving Environment for Bioinformatics) in this paper. The CPSE-Bio is a Problem-Solving-Environment for bioinformatics based on cloud computing platform. The BNVC, as a web-based application, is designed to visualize and analyze complex biomolecular networks, particularly compare two similar networks, which is the first web-based tool to analysis alignment status of complex biomolecular networks based on Cytoscape Web.