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RFC Name : Cytoscape Book

Editor(s): Allan Kuchinsky

Date: 2008-05-02

Status: <!>Under Construction

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Proposal

Publish a co-authored book on Cytoscape and its role in exploring biological networks as a companion to 3.0 release.

Background

We have been approached frequently to write book chapters on Cytoscape. But there is so much functionality to write about that it is hard to capture in a book chapter. At the same time, there appears to be a niche for a practitioner-oriented book on biological networks and their analysis, visualization, and integration with measurement data. A book on Cytoscape, co-authored and published in the time frame to be a companion to the 3.0 release, would serve a number of purposes:

a comprehensive and useful resource for the community of Cytoscape users and developers.
a comprehensive and useful resource for anyone who wanted to learn more about biological network analysis and visualization.
a way of broadening the user and developer base for Cytoscape.
a way to enhance Cytoscape's stature and visability.

Use Cases

The book would be oriented towards practitioners (users and developers) and would be a complement to the Cytoscape User Manual. Rather than being a how-to book, this would be more of a what-is-possible book. That is, in contrast to the User Manual and protocols articles we have published, which provide step-by-step directions for using the functionality, the book would provide technical background on the main problem areas for biological networks, coupled with descriptions of how Cytoscape and its plugins approach the problem area. The reader of the book would gain a knowledge of the state of research into biological network analysis and visualization, as well as some familiarity with the Cytoscape platform. The book would serve as a text and could potentially be used as a text for bioinformatics courses. The book could also serve as a general reference for Cytoscape, but the reader would be referred to the User Manual for specific details on how to use the functionality. This has the advantage of insulating the book from changes that will occur in ongoing releases of Cytoscape.

Implementation Plan

The following is one potential way of organizing the book. It could be organized into a small number of sections, each section oriented around a particular theme of network analysis and visualization and containing several chapters, each chapter oriented around a particular problem area, approach, or area of functionality. In addition to giving a survey of the problem area and describing the relevant Cytoscape functionality, the chapter could include sidebars on the relevant plugins and/or examples of real-world usage. Additionally, there would be introductory materials the provided vision and and overview of the area, also concluding materials that might describe future trends and how Cytoscape might evolve.

Following is an initial outline of potential sections, chapters, sidebars, and possible authors. It is not exhaustive. Please feel free to add or modify.

Section	Chapter	Problem Description	Cytoscape Functionality	Sidebars
Introductory	Forward	Provide vision and context. Describe the role of biological networks in understanding and curing disease, personalized medicine, etc.
	Overview	Describe the major problem and research areas of of Network Analysis, Visualization, and Data Integration. Give an overview of the sections and chapters of the book.
	User Perspective	Describe the work practices of different types of biomedical researchers and their needs from information technologies.		Describe a real-world use case that will be used as an example throughout the book.
Creating Content	Biological pathway resources and molecular interactions databases		web service clients, import networks from file/URLs	MiMI, PathwayCommons, BioPAX, GenMAP, WikiPathways
	Network inference	inferring networks and interactions from expression data, non-structured text, clustering ...		Agilent Literature Search, use case in atherosclerosis?

|| ||Data and Annotations || || web service clients, import expression data, import attributes, import annotations || ||

Project Management

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Project Dependencies

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Related RFCs

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Issues

What is the right venue for publishing -- traditional publisher, Publish-on-Demand service, WikiBook?
Do we focus on biological networks or do we broaden the focus to include other kinds of networks?

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+The following is one potential way of organizing the book. It could be organized into a small number of sections, each section oriented around a particular theme of network analysis and visualization and containing several chapters, each chapter oriented around a particular problem area, approach, or area of functionality. In addition to giving a survey of the problem area and describing the relevant Cytoscape functionality, the chapter could include ''sidebars'' on the relevant plugins and/or examples of real-world usage. Additionally, there would be introductory materials the provided vision and and overview of the area, also concluding materials that might describe future trends and how Cytoscape might evolve.
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||'''Cytoscape Themes.''' ||Sarah and Alex ||We think it would be useful to provide customized versions of Cytoscape for specific users. An example would be a biologist themed release that would include all plugins to support import/export of biological file formats. ||Ready for testing ||

||'''Filter UI redesign.''' ||Peng ||To construct complex filter with the combination of AND, OR, and NOT. ||Ready for testing ||
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||'''Section''' ||'''Chapter''' ||'''Problem Description''' ||'''Cytoscape Functionality''' ||'''Sidebars''' ||

||'''Introductory''' ||Forward ||Provide vision and context. Describe the role of biological networks in understanding and curing disease, personalized medicine, etc. || || ||

|| ||Overview ||Describe the major problem and research areas of of Network Analysis, Visualization, and Data Integration. Give an overview of the sections and chapters of the book. || || ||

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||'''Creating Content'''||Biological pathway resources and molecular interactions databases|| ||web service clients, import networks from file/URLs ||MiMI, Pathway''''''Commons, Bio''''''PAX, Gen''''''MAP, Wiki''''''Pathways||

|| ||Network inference|| inferring networks and interactions from expression data, non-structured text, clustering ... ||  ||Agilent Literature Search, use case in atherosclerosis?||

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