Metabolic maps for everyone
Zachary King
Aug. 6, 2015
What is Escher?
A web application for building, sharing, and embedding
data-rich visualizations of biological pathways
Huh?
Let's build
this in a web
browser
Why are we doing this?
Visualizing metabolism is hard
Human metabolism:
Is this better?
KEGG
Specialized figures are the most informative:
Lehninger, Principles of Biochemistry, 4th Ed.
And some nice tools exist
to build them:
Omix
- Build pathway visualizations in a web browser
- Apply any dataset
- Build new features with the Escher API
- Share in any browser, including mobile browsers
- Run from Python and IPython notebooks (& NBViewer)
Citation:
King ZA, Dräger A, Ebrahim A, Sonnenschein N, Lewis NE, Palsson BO. Escher: A web application for building, sharing, and embedding data-rich visualizations of biological pathways. PLOS Computational Biology. In press.
McCloskey, D. et al. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 1–31 (2013).
King ZA, Lloyd CJ, Feist AM, Palsson BO. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2015;35:23–29.
https://github.com/zakandrewking/escher
Escher: Metabolic maps for everyone
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