Figure 4

Abstraction of interactions from pathways. A) A fragment of BioPAX (entity, pathways, interactions) and the particular representation of interactions through physical entity participants. B) A visual query corresponding to two interacting elements. C) A set of axioms that allows abstraction of interactions and simplification of their representation. Note that new assertions inferred through these axioms are identified by a new namespace (here “an” in short). D) A visual query on the resulting intuitive representation.