An Open Source Platform for Complex Network Analysis and Visualization

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Shannon P, Markiel A, Ozier O, Baliga NS, Wang JT, Ramage D, Amin N, Schwikowski B, Ideker T.

Cytoscape: a software environment for integrated models of biomolecular interaction networks

Genome Research 2003 Nov; 13(11):2498-504

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Ono K, Fong D, Gao C, Churas C, Pillich R, Lenkiewicz J, Pratt D, Pico AR, Hanspers K, Xin Y, Morris J, Kucera M, Franz M, Lopes C, Bader G, Ideker T, Chen J

Cytoscape Web: bringing network biology to the browser

Nucleic Acids Research, 2025;, gkaf365

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