VisANT Tutorials

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Finding candidates of repositioning drugs for breast cancer

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • Construction of drug-target network

  • Filter out network using therapy(drug)/disease information

  • Filter out network based on data type or visual properties

  • Search therapy(drug)/disease using key words

  • Find drugs having multiple targets or proteins targeted by multiple drugs

  • Creation of network legend

  • Visual customization through new GUI

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Query/Create interaction networks

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • Exploratory navigation of interaction networks starting with any specified protein/gene

  • Find the different level of neighbors (1st level neighbors are the directly interacted genes/proteins ...)  for a given list of genes/proteins, and how to check whether the genes/proteins are connected

  • Find the connections between a given set of genes/proteins

  • Create your own network using a list of pairwise correlations (edge-list format)

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Use VisANT to visualize networks in your own web site

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • Add a simple HTTP link to visualize your data in VisANT

  • Embedding VisANT applet in your web page with customizable VisANT applet parameters and scriptable APIs to control the VisANT

  • Creating a server to visualize your own interaction database in VisANT

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Visualize the edge weight

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • Visualize edge weight using edge color, edge thickness, or both

  • Add weighted interaction using edge-list format

  • Visualize method-dependent edge weight

  • Using weight cutoff to filter the network
     

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Using batch mode to automate the analyses

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • How to run VisANT in the batch mode

  • How to prepare the command file

  • Learn the most common commands
     

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Create the multiscale networks

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • How to create/delete metanodes

  • How to manipulate the metagraphs

  • How to create metanodes using extended edge-list format
     

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Develop VisANT plugin in Eclipse

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • How to configure Eclipse for plugin development

  • How to use Ant script to automate the jar file creation when compiling the plugin

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Edge Annotation

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What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • Change the line width of the edge by assign different weights.

  • Add label to the edge.

  • Add detailed annotation of the edge that will be part of quick tip when mouse-over the edge.

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Create & Filter the Weighted Network

What you will learn from this tutorial:

  • Prepare the data of weighted network in the format of Edge-List.

  • Create the network from the sets of edge lists.

  • Filter the edges with their weights.

  • Experience the new dynamic-link feature of degree distribution in VisANT 2.0 and their application in network manipulation.

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