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ArticlePloS one2025

ProteinWeaver: A webtool to visualize ontology-annotated protein networks.

Oliver Anderson, Altaf Barelvi, Aden O'Brien, Ainsley Norman, Iris Jan, Anna Ritz

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Article in PloS one, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Oliver AndersonBiology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9985-4279
Altaf BarelviBiology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
Aden O'BrienBiology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
Ainsley NormanBiology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
Iris JanBiology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.
Anna RitzBiology Department, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, United States of America.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7925-5369

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular interaction networks are a vital tool for studying biological systems. While many tools exist that visualize a protein or a pathway within a network, no tool provides the ability for a researcher to consider a protein's position in a network in the context of a specific biological process or pathway. We developed ProteinWeaver, a web-based tool designed to visualize and analyze non-human protein interaction networks by integrating known biological functions. ProteinWeaver provides users with an intuitive interface to situate a user-specified protein in a user-provided biological context (as a Gene Ontology term) in seven model organisms. ProteinWeaver also reports the presence of physical and regulatory network motifs within the queried subnetwork and statistics about the protein's distance to the biological process or pathway within the network. These insights can help researchers generate testable hypotheses about the protein's potential role in the process or pathway under study. Two cell biology case studies demonstrate ProteinWeaver's potential to generate hypotheses from the queried subnetworks. ProteinWeaver is available at https://proteinweaver.reedcompbio.org/.

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Gene OntologyProtein Interaction MappingProtein Interaction MapsProteinsSoftwareAnimalsComputational BiologyHumansInternetProteins

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PMID40911650
PMCPMC12413088

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