title: NetMatch: a Cytoscape plugin for searching biological networks.
abstract: NetMatch is a Cytoscape plugin which allows searching biological networks for subcomponents matching a given query. Queries may be approximate in the sense that certain parts of the subgraph-query may be left unspecified. To make the query creation process easy, a drawing tool is provided. Cytoscape is a bioinformatics software platform for the visualization and analysis of biological networks.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The full package, a tutorial and associated examples are available at the following web sites: http://alpha.dmi.unict.it/~ctnyu/netmatch.html, http://baderlab.org/Software/NetMatch.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Catania, Viale A. Doria 6, I-95125 Catania, Italy. ferro@dmi.unict.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferro
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giugno
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pigola
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pulvirenti
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Skripin
authors.forename: G D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Bader
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shasha
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface