CoNet App: Inference of Biological Association Networks Using Cytoscape

Overview

Journal F1000Res

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Science

Date 2016 Nov 22

PMID 27853510

Citations 267

Authors

Karoline Faust

Jeroen Raes

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Abstract

Here we present the Cytoscape app version of our association network inference tool CoNet. Though CoNet was developed with microbial community data from sequencing experiments in mind, it is designed to be generic and can detect associations in any data set where biological entities (such as genes, metabolites or species) have been observed repeatedly. The CoNet app supports Cytoscape 2.x and 3.x and offers a variety of network inference approaches, which can also be combined. Here we briefly describe its main features and illustrate its use on microbial count data obtained by 16S rDNA sequencing of arctic soil samples. The CoNet app is available at: http://apps.cytoscape.org/apps/conet.

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