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ArticleBMC bioinformatics2017

NFPscanner: a webtool for knowledge-based deciphering of biomedical networks.

Wenjian Xu, Yang Cao, Ziwei Xie, Haochen He, Song He, Hao Hong, Xiaochen Bo, Fei Li

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Article in BMC bioinformatics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Wenjian XuDepartment of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, 27 Taiping Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100850, China.
Yang CaoTianjin Institute of Health & Environmental Medicine, 1 Dali Road, Heping District, Tianjin, 300050, China.
Ziwei XieDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430074, Hubei, China.
Haochen HeDepartment of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, 27 Taiping Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100850, China.
Song HeDepartment of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, 27 Taiping Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100850, China.
Hao HongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, 109 Deya Road, Kaifu District, Changsha, 410073, Hunan, China.
Xiaochen BoDepartment of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, 27 Taiping Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100850, China. boxc@bmi.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4304-3479
Fei LiDepartment of Biotechnology, Beijing Institute of Radiation Medicine, 27 Taiping Street, Haidian District, Beijing, 100850, China. pittacus@gmail.com.

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Abstract

backgroundMany biological pathways have been created to represent different types of knowledge, such as genetic interactions, metabolic reactions, and gene-regulating and physical-binding relationships. Biologists are using a wide range of omics data to elaborately construct various context-specific differential molecular networks. However, they cannot easily gain insight into unfamiliar gene networks with the tools that are currently available for pathways resource and network analysis. They would benefit from the development of a standardized tool to compare functions of multiple biological networks quantitatively and promptly.

resultsTo address this challenge, we developed NFPscanner, a web server for deciphering gene networks with pathway associations. Adapted from a recently reported knowledge-based framework called network fingerprint, NFPscanner integrates the annotated pathways of 7 databases, 4 algorithms, and 2 graphical visualization modules into a webtool. It implements 3 types of network analysis: Fingerprint: Deciphering gene networks and highlighting inherent pathway modules Alignment: Discovering functional associations by finding optimized node mapping between 2 gene networks Enrichment: Calculating and visualizing gene ontology (GO) and pathway enrichment for genes in networks Users can upload gene networks to NFPscanner through the web interface and then interactively explore the networks' functions.

conclusionsNFPscanner is open-source software for non-commercial use, freely accessible at http://biotech.bmi.ac.cn/nfs .

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Gene Regulatory NetworksInternetKnowledge BasesSoftwareAlgorithmsCluster AnalysisReproducibility of ResultsSequence AlignmentNetwork decipheringNetwork fingerprintOnline interactive analysisPathway analysis

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PMCPMC5437514

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