Java editor for biological pathways.
A visual Java-based tool for drawing and annotating biological pathways was developed. This tool integrates the possibilities of charting elements with different attributes (size, color, labels), drawing connections between elements in distinct characteristics (color, structure, width, arrows), as well as adding links to molecular biology databases, promoter sequences, information on the function of the genes or gene products, and references. It is easy to use and system independent. The result of the editing process is a PNG (portable network graphics) file for the images and XML (extended markup language) file for the appropriate links.
Trost
Elmar
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Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Graz University of Technology, Krenngasse 37, 8010 Graz, Austria.
Hackl
Hubert
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Maurer
Michael
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Trajanoski
Zlatko
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