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Table 3 Comparison of PanoromiX to other major network packages

From: PanoromiX: a time-course network medicine platform integrating molecular assays and pathophenotypic data

Name

web-based design, display, and share

Time-series interactive animation

Support Metanode/Module

Temporal profile analysis

Reproducibility

Learning curve

Open Source

Panoromix

web-based, full interactivity

Playing mode with highlight, annotation, search, filtering

Yes

Sentivity filtering; display progfiles

web-based model depository

No software intallation, no programming needed

Free

Cytoscape

desktop version and Cytoscape.js

Non-interactive videos using DynNetwork

Yes

Sensitivity filtering; display profiles

share session files

Need to install; need to learn plugins; extensive programming required for Cytoscape.js

Free

Gephi

desktop

Non-interactive videos

Metanode pugin

No

share session files

Need to install; need to learn plugins

Free

IPA

Web-based

No

No

No

share session files

Need toinstall; no programming required

Commercial

R packages

Shiny server

Non-interactive videos using animation + igraph

No

Statistical Packages

R Notebook/R Markdown

Need to install R and many packages; Extensive programming needed

Shiny server (have commercial version)

VisANT

Web-based

No

Yes

No

web sharing

Need to install, no programming needed

Free

yED

desktop and yED live

No

No

No

share session files

No software installation, no programming needed

Free

VANTED

desktop

No

No

display profiles

share excel files

Need to install, no programming needed

Free

NAViGaTOR

desktop

No

No

display profiles

share text files

currently unsupported, no programming needed

Free

PATIKA

web-based

No

Yes

display profiles

share text file

currently unsupported, no programming needed

Free

Cancer PanorOmics

web-based

No

No

No

share text file

No software installation, no programming needed

Free

GENeVis

desktop

No

No

display profiles

share text file

Need to install, no programming needed

Free