Metscape 2 bioinformatics tool for the analysis and visualization of metabolomics and gene expression data.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Metabolomics is a rapidly evolving field that holds promise to provide insights into genotype-phenotype relationships in cancers, diabetes and other complex diseases. One of the major informatics challenges is providing tools that link metabolite data with other types of high-throughput molecular data (e.g. transcriptomics, proteomics), and incorporate prior knowledge of pathways and molecular interactions.

Results

We describe a new, substantially redesigned version of our tool Metscape that allows users to enter experimental data for metabolites, genes and pathways and display them in the context of relevant metabolic networks. Metscape 2 uses an internal relational database that integrates data from KEGG and EHMN databases. The new version of the tool allows use

SUBMITTER: Karnovsky A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3268237 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature