Pages S219–S230 BioMiner—modeling, analyzing, and visualizing.pdf

BIOINFORMATICS Vol. 18 Suppl. 2 2002 Pages S219–S230 BioMiner—modeling, analyzing, and visualizing biochemical pathways and networks ˇ 1 ¨ 1 2 2 M. S¯ırava , T. Schafer , M. Eiglsperger , M. Kaufmann , O. Kohlbacher 1 3 1 , E. Bornberg-Bauer and H. P. Lenhof 1Center for Bioinformatics, Saarland University, P.O. Box 151150, Saarbr¨ucken, 66041, Germany, 2 Wilhelm-Schickard Institut f¨ur Informatik, University of T¨ubingen, Sand 13, T¨ubingen, 72076, Germany and 3 Umber, School of Biological Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, M13 9PT, UK Received on April 8, 2002; accepted on June 15, 2002 ABSTRACT data, protein-protein interaction data, or information on Motivation: Understanding the biochemistry of a newly metabolic and regulatory networks, is growing at an sequenced organism is an essential task for post-genomic exponential rate. analysis. Since, however, genome and array data grow However, because of its direct implications for patho- much faster than biochemical information, it is necessary genicity, agricultural productivity and drug-