The Integrative network Graphic engine Interface for R (IGIR) aims at bridging existing powerful graphic engines such as Cytoscape and R together to produce gene networks automatically. IGIR will provide users with a very flexible interface to take advantages of graph packages in R to do statistical analysis and visualization power of various existing graphic software.

Features

Eventually, IGIR package will have following features:

• IGIR is programmed in object-oriented style based on R.oo package in R. So it can be easily inherited to fit users' specific requirements.
• IGIR adopts a standard XGMML(eXtensible Graph Markup and Modeling Language) format to interact among existing network software.
• IGIR will offer more automatic solutions to visualize gene networks.
• IGIR will include a series of automatic pipelines for some popular bioinformatic workflows.

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References

• Bengtsson, H. The R.oo package - Object-Oriented Programming with References Using Standard R Code, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Distributed Statistical Computing (DSC 2003), ISSN 1609-395X, Hornik, K.; Leisch, F. & Zeileis, A. (ed.), 2003
• Csardi G, Nepusz T: The igraph software package for complex network research, InterJournal, Complex Systems 1695. 2006.