title: Biographer: web-based editing and rendering of SBGN compliant biochemical networks.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The rapid accumulation of knowledge in the field of Systems Biology during the past years requires advanced, but simple-to-use, methods for the visualization of information in a structured and easily comprehensible manner.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We have developed biographer, a web-based renderer and editor for reaction networks, which can be integrated as a library into tools dealing with network-related information. Our software enables visualizations based on the emerging standard Systems Biology Graphical Notation. It is able to import networks encoded in various formats such as SBML, SBGN-ML and jSBGN, a custom lightweight exchange format. The core package is implemented in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript and can be used within any kind of web-based project. It features interactive graph-editing tools and automatic graph layout algorithms. In addition, we provide a standalone graph editor and a web server, which contains enhanced features like web services for the import and export of models and visualizations in different formats.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The biographer tool can be used at and downloaded from the web page http://biographer.biologie.hu-berlin.de/. The different software packages, including a server-independent version as well as a web server for Windows and Linux based systems, are available at http://code.google.com/p/biographer/ under the open-source license LGPL
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Biophysics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Falko
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krause
authors.forename: Marvin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schulz
authors.forename: Ben
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ripkens
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Flöttmann
authors.forename: Marcus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krantz
authors.forename: Edda
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Klipp
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Handorf
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*