Selecting relevant nodes and structures in biological networks. BiNAT: a new plugin for Cytoscape

ummary: In order to understand a network function, it's necessary the understanding of its topology, since the topology is designed to better undertake the function, and the efficiency of network function is influenced by its topology. For this reason, topological analysis of complex networks has been an intensely researched area in the last decade. Results: Here we propose BiNAT, a Cytoscape [1] plugin able to perform network analysis, providing a full set of useful tools to discover the most significant nodes and structures in a network. Conclusions: The plugin has been approved on the official Cytoscape plugins repository and it is downloadable directly from this site: http://dmb.iasi.cnr.it/binat.php where a full guide is also available.