PathVisio 2.0 released

26 Oct 2009

An elegant new feature of PathVisio 2.0 (http://www.pathvisio.org/) is the ability to import experimental datasets and visualize them on top of biological pathways. Large microarray, proteomics or metabolomics datasets can be explored in a way that is more interesting and understandable than by using just a huge spreadsheet. Microarray reporters will be automatically converted to gene or protein identifiers. Visualization can be customized using gradients, boolean colour rules or coloured icons. Perform over-representation analysis to identify the pathway most affected by experimental conditions.

A Visual Tour of new and existing features of PathVisio is available at http://www.pathvisio.org/wiki/VisualTour

About PathVisio
PathVisio is a tool for creating and analysing biological pathway diagrams. Stay organized by using PathVisio as a notebook to collect the various bits of information related to a biological research subject. Create images suitable for presentation or publication. Draw pathways, export them to many image formats, annotate them with links to online biological databases such as Ensembl or Entrez gene, and add comments and literature references from Pubmed. PathVisio is fully compatible with WikiPathways (http://www.wikipathways.org/), a wiki where researchers can contribute pathway knowledge.

Information for developers
PathVisio has a plug-in interface that allows customization by users to accommodate new analysis types, new visualization methods and new pathway formats. PathVisio is fully open source, and we are always looking for Java developers who are interested in contributing, either to new plug-ins or to the core of the program. Contact us through our mailing list: http://www.pathvisio.org/wiki/MailingLists

PathVisio was developed by the BiGCaT Bioinformatics group at Maastricht University, the Netherlands, within the NBIC BioRange programme.

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