shu
shu integrates and visualizes high-dimensional biological pathways by consolidating diverse multi-omics datasets into comprehensive metabolic maps to reveal condition-specific molecular distributions.
Key Features:
- Metabolic maps: Metabolic maps developed with contributions from the metabolic modeling community that provide a structured framework for pathway-level visualization.
- Multi-omics integration: Consolidates diverse, condition-specific multi-omics datasets into unified metabolic maps for comparative pathway analysis.
- Visualization of condition-specific distributions: Displays distributions across conditions within metabolic networks to support interpretation of system-level changes.
- Python API (Grammar of Graphics): A Python API implemented on Grammar of Graphics principles for programmable generation and customization of visualizations.
Scientific Applications:
- Systems biology: Pathway-level integration and visualization of multi-omics data to support systems-level analysis.
- Personalized medicine: Mapping condition-specific molecular profiles onto metabolic networks to inform personalized-medicine analyses.
- Molecular research requiring detailed insights: Supporting studies that require comprehensive, pathway-centric interpretation of high-dimensional datasets.
Methodology:
Consolidates diverse multi-omics datasets into comprehensive metabolic maps and exposes a Python API based on Grammar of Graphics for visualization.
Topics
Details
- License:
- Apache-2.0
- Cost:
- Free of charge
- Tool Type:
- web application
- Operating Systems:
- Mac, Linux, Windows
- Programming Languages:
- Python
- Added:
- 6/19/2024
- Last Updated:
- 11/24/2024
Operations
Publications
Carrasco Muriel J, Cowie N, Taylor Parkins S, Mansouvar M, Groves T, Nielsen LK. Shu: visualization of high-dimensional biological pathways. Bioinformatics. 2024;40(3). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btae140. PMID:38452346. PMCID:PMC10957514.
Documentation
User manual
https://biosustain.github.io/shu/docsUser manual
https://docs.rs/shu