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Deposited research article

Osprey: A Network Visualization System

Bobby-Joe Breitkreutz^1,2, Chris Stark^1,2 and Mike Tyers¹

¹Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto M5G 1X5, Canada

²These authors contributed equally to this work

author email corresponding author email

Genome Biology 2002, 3:preprint0012.1-0012.6doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-preprint0012

Published:	21 November 2002

This was the first version of this article to be made available publicly. A peer-reviewed and modified version is now available in full at http://genomebiology.com/2003/4/3/R22

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies

Abstract

We have developed a software platform called Osprey for visualization and manipulation of complex interaction networks. Osprey builds data-rich graphical representations that are color-coded for gene function and experimental interaction data. Mouse-over functions allow rapid elaboration and organization of network diagrams in a spoke model format. User-defined large-scale data sets can be readily combined with Osprey for comparison of different methods.