Figure 3.

Accessing STRING data from within Cytoscape. Two proteins from Escherichia coli were used as queries for the ‘PSICQUIC Web Service Universal Client’ import-plugin of Cytoscape. Multiple databases have reported hits for these queries (upper left panel); in this case STRING has reported the largest number of hits. The resulting four networks are largely non-overlapping, both in terms of name-spaces as well as in terms of the actual interactors reported. The imported STRING network (right) is shown in detail; it can be used as the basis of further refinement, post-processing and analysis in Cytoscape.