title: The MiSink Plugin: Cytoscape as a graphical interface to the Database of Interacting Proteins.
abstract: The MiSink Plugin converts Cytoscape, an open-source bioinformatics platform for network visualization, to a graphical interface for the database of interacting proteins (DIP: http://dip.doe-mbi.ucla.edu). Seamless integration is possible by providing bi-directional communication between Cytoscape and any Web site supplying data in XML or tab-delimited format.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  MiSink is freely available for download at http://dip.doe-mbi.ucla.edu/Software.cgi.
authors.affiliation: UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics & Proteomics, Department of Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Box 951570, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. lukasz@mbi.ucla.edu
authors.forename: Lukasz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Salwinski
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface