Table 2 Characteristics of CellNetVis, Cerebral, CerebralWeb, and Mosaic

Network layout updates while interacting

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Plots the network over a full cell diagram

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×

Web-based system

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×

Clutter relief by edge-bundling

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×

Movable cellular partitions

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Highlight possible CCs of selected node

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Supports large networks

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×

×

Accepts pre-annotated cellular localization

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×

×

Shareable visualization through URL

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Downloads nodes’ unique CC from InnateDB

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×

Shows quantity of nodes that are in each CC

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Cytoscape independent

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×

Online-database independent

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×

×

Ready for use (non-programming dependent)

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×

×

Open-source and freely available

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×

×

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