Metabolomic pathway visualization tool outsourcing editing function.

Abstract

Recent rapid improvements of measuring instrument enables us to perform various omics studies to simultaneous profile multiple molecules, which provides a holistic view of various molecular interactions, such as signal transaction, protein interactions, and metabolic pathways. Metabolomics is recently emerged omics that can identify and quantify low weight metabolites usually defined as organic molecules whose size is <; 1500 Da. In comparison to the other omics, the development of software tools to deal with metabolomic data is not matured. Conventional pathway drawing and visualization tool provide tool-specific unique functions, however, such user interface requires users to learn the usage and prevention for the use of these tools. Here, we developed a more generic pathway visualization tool. This tool incorporate pathway data yielded by common drawing tools, e.g. MS PowerPoint, and visualize the quantified values on the pathways. The statistical results also can be overlaid on each metabolite. The developed tools facilitate the interpreting metabolomic data in pathway forms.