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ArticleNPJ systems biology and applications2026

Hyperpathway: visualizing organization of pathway-molecule enriched interactions in omics studies via hyperbolic bipartite network embedding.

Ilyes Abdelhamid, Ziheng Liao, Yuchi Liu, Armel Lefebvre, Aldo Acevedo, Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

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Ilyes AbdelhamidCenter for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI), Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI), Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Ziheng LiaoCenter for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI), Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI), Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yuchi LiuCenter for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI), Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI), Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Armel LefebvreCenter for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI), Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI), Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Aldo AcevedoFormerly at Biomedical Cybernetics Group, Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC), Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB), Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Carlo Vittorio CannistraciCenter for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI), Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI), Department of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. kalokagathos.agon@gmail.com.

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National High-Level Talent Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China 20241710001
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Abstract

Pathway enrichment analysis (PEA) of omics data identifies significant pathway-molecule associations, yet delivers results as tabular lists in which complex systems-biology insights remain inaccessible. Hyperpathway is an open-access network-based webtool that addresses this limitation through three original innovations: (1) conversion of a PEA results table into a pathway-molecule bipartite network; (2) a minimal artificial linking strategy to resolve structural disconnections; (3) a leaf removal and post-hoc reinsertion pipeline that accelerates coalescent embedding without any loss of geometric fidelity. The resulting network is visualized in a two-dimensional hyperbolic disk with flexible coloring schemes encoding hierarchical relevance, connectivity similarity, statistical significance, or user-defined annotations; revealing latent functional modules that are invisible in conventional tabular outputs. Validated on genomic, metabolomic, and lipidomic datasets, Hyperpathway enables a deeper, systems-level understanding of the interplay between pathways and their molecular components, providing insights that go beyond p-value-based significance testing. Beyond PEA, Hyperpathway can be used as a general-purpose open webtool for fast hyperbolic embedding and interactive visualization of any bipartite network.

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Computational BiologySystems BiologyGenomicsHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysMetabolomicsSoftware

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