
Cytoscape alternatives
Cytoscape is an all-in-one platform that provides state-of-the-art tools to help you create diagrams of molecular interaction networks and merge them with attribute data like annotations and more. It was initially intended to serve biological researchers, but over time, evolved into a platform providing visualization and network analysis services.
Cytoscape offers many exciting features. It is compliant with many file formats like Gene Association, SIF, PSI-MI, XGMML, SBML, GML, OBO, and more. It can quickly link to open-source databases, annotation data, and import networks that include the NCBI Entrez Gene, Pathway Commons, BioMart, and more. The platform is continuously working to provide compatibility with more database services. Besides these characteristics, It allows you to export images in several formats such as BMP, JPEG, PDF, PNG, and SVG.
It offers extra features in the form of apps that can be downloaded for free from the Cytoscape App Store. Apps help with various tasks such as establishing a connection with databases, network & molecular analysis, scripting, and more. Developers can also design custom applications by using the Cytoscape API that uses the Java Programming Langauge.















