title: PiNGO: a Cytoscape plugin to find candidate genes in biological networks.
abstract: PiNGO is a tool to screen biological networks for candidate genes, i.e. genes predicted to be involved in a biological process of interest. The user can narrow the search to genes with particular known functions or exclude genes belonging to particular functional classes. PiNGO provides support for a wide range of organisms and Gene Ontology classification schemes, and it can easily be customized for other organisms and functional classifications. PiNGO is implemented as a plugin for Cytoscape, a popular network visualization platform.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  PiNGO is distributed as an open-source Java package under the GNU General Public License (http://www.gnu.org/), and can be downloaded via the Cytoscape plugin manager. A detailed user guide and tutorial are available on the PiNGO website (http://www.psb.ugent.be/esb/PiNGO.
authors.affiliation: Department of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smoot
authors.forename: Keiichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ono
authors.forename: Trey
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ideker
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maere
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D005796:Genes; D012984:Software