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NRNB and Cytoscape
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Shannon P, Markiel A, Ozier O, Baliga NS, Wang JT, Ramage D, Amin N, Schwikowski B, Ideker T.
Cytoscape: a software environment for integrated models of biomolecular interaction networks
Genome Research 2003 Nov; 13(11):2498-504
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