title: Cytoscape 2.8: new features for data integration and network visualization.
abstract: Cytoscape is a popular bioinformatics package for biological network visualization and data integration. Version 2.8 introduces two powerful new features--Custom Node Graphics and Attribute Equations--which can be used jointly to greatly enhance Cytoscape's data integration and visualization capabilities. Custom Node Graphics allow an image to be projected onto a node, including images generated dynamically or at remote locations. Attribute Equations provide Cytoscape with spreadsheet-like functionality in which the value of an attribute is computed dynamically as a function of other attributes and network properties.
  
  
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  Cytoscape is a desktop Java application released under the Library Gnu Public License (LGPL). Binary install bundles and source code for Cytoscape 2.8 are available for download from http://cytoscape.org.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. msmoot@ucsd.edu
authors.forename: Michael E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Smoot
authors.forename: Keiichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruscheinski
authors.forename: Peng-Liang
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Trey
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ideker
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*