title: WordCloud: a Cytoscape plugin to create a visual semantic summary of networks.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  When biological networks are studied, it is common to look for clusters, i.e. sets of nodes that are highly inter-connected. To understand the biological meaning of a cluster, the user usually has to sift through many textual annotations that are associated with biological entities.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The WordCloud Cytoscape plugin generates a visual summary of these annotations by displaying them as a tag cloud, where more frequent words are displayed using a larger font size. Word co-occurrence in a phrase can be visualized by arranging words in clusters or as a network.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  WordCloud provides a concise visual summary of annotations which is helpful for network analysis and interpretation. WordCloud is freely available at http://baderlab.org/Software/WordCloudPlugin.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. layla@cs.brown.edu.
authors.forename: Layla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oesper
authors.forename: Daniele
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Merico
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Isserlin
authors.forename: Gary D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Bader