Motivation: Spatial Analysis of Functional Enrichment (SAFE) is a popular tool for biologists to investigate the functional organization of biological networks via highly intuitive 2D functional maps. To create these maps, SAFE uses Spring embedding to project a given network into a 2D space in which nodes connected in the network are near each other in space. However, many biological networks are scale-free, containing highly connected hub nodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSummary: Common approaches for deciphering biological networks involve network embedding algorithms. These approaches strictly focus on clustering the genes' embedding vectors and interpreting such clusters to reveal the hidden information of the networks. However, the difficulty in interpreting the genes' clusters and the limitations of the functional annotations' resources hinder the identification of the currently unknown cell's functioning mechanisms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn recent decades, the development of new drugs has become increasingly expensive and inefficient, and the molecular mechanisms of most pharmaceuticals remain poorly understood. In response, computational systems and network medicine tools have emerged to identify potential drug repurposing candidates. However, these tools often require complex installation and lack intuitive visual network mining capabilities.
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