PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Mathurin Dorel AU - Emmanuel Barillot AU - Andrei Zinovyev AU - Inna Kuperstein TI - NaviCom: A web application to create interactive molecular network portraits using multi-level omics data AID - 10.1101/089367 DP - 2016 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 089367 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/23/089367.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/11/23/089367.full AB - Human diseases such as cancer are routinely characterized by high-throughput molecular technologies, and multi-level omics data are accumulated in public databases at increasing rate. Retrieval and visualization of these data in the context of molecular network maps can provide insights into the pattern of molecular functions encompassed by an omics profile. In order to make this task easy, we developed NaviCom, a Python package and web platform for visualization of multi-level omics data on top of biological network maps. NaviCom is bridging the gap between cBioPortal, the most used resource of large-scale cancer omics data and NaviCell, a data visualization web service that contains several molecular network map collections. NaviCom proposes several standardized modes of data display on top of molecular network maps, allowing to address specific biological questions. We illustrate how users can easily create interactive network-based cancer molecular portraits via NaviCom web interface using the maps of Atlas of Cancer Signaling Network (ACSN) and other maps. Analysis of these molecular portraits can help in formulating a scientific hypothesis on the molecular mechanisms deregulated in the studied disease.