View source for VisANT

This is just a summary of my notes on VisANT from reading the user manual[http://visant.bu.edu/vmanual/]

== Useful Features ==
* Integration with KEGG plus several other online databases/tools
* Accessibility
** Web based utility
** Downloadable for local jobs
** Hybrid version can save data to local machine while running on BU machines
* Shortest path calculation
** Sensitive to directionality 
* Metanodes
** Allow for cleaner visualization of large, complex pathways and multi-protein enzyme complexes
** Allow for multiple instances of proteins/compounds
* Plug in support
* Filter based on methods
** Add new method (eg. "Metagenomic Analysis")
** Unselect all methods then reselect "Metagenomic Analysis" to view only those nodes and edges revealed by metagenomic analysis
* Batch mode for large-scale applications

== Missing Features ==
* Mapping sequence data to genes
** Distributed BHR calculation
* Non-metabolic pathways
** KEGG has yet to release KGML files for the following pathways:
*** Genetic information processing
*** Environmental information processing
*** Cellular processes
*** Human diseases
*** Drug development
* Open source?
** "Partially funded by NIH" (probably means they're required to release source)