Beacon Editor: Capturing Signal Transduction Pathways Using the Systems Biology Graphical Notation Activity Flow Language

Haitham Elmarakeby; Mostafa Arefiyan; Elijah Myers; Song Li; Ruth Grene; Lenwood S Heath

doi:10.1089/cmb.2017.0095

Beacon Editor: Capturing Signal Transduction Pathways Using the Systems Biology Graphical Notation Activity Flow Language

J Comput Biol. 2017 Dec;24(12):1226-1229. doi: 10.1089/cmb.2017.0095. Epub 2017 Aug 28.

Authors

Haitham Elmarakeby¹, Mostafa Arefiyan², Elijah Myers³, Song Li⁴, Ruth Grene⁵, Lenwood S Heath¹

Affiliations

¹ 1 Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, Virginia.
² 2 Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, Virginia.
³ 3 Genetics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, Virginia.
⁴ 4 Department of Crop and Soil Environmental Sciences, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, Virginia.
⁵ 5 Department of Plant Pathology, Physiology, and Weed Science, Virginia Tech , Blacksburg, Virginia.

PMID: 28846457
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2017.0095

Abstract

The Beacon Editor is a cross-platform desktop application for the creation and modification of signal transduction pathways using the Systems Biology Graphical Notation Activity Flow (SBGN-AF) language. Prompted by biologists' requests for enhancements, the Beacon Editor includes numerous powerful features for the benefit of creation and presentation.

Keywords: Beacon Project; Systems Biology Graphical Notation; signal transduction pathways.

MeSH terms

Computer Graphics / standards*
Humans
Models, Biological
Programming Languages*
Signal Transduction*
Software*
Systems Biology / standards*