Initial release 2008 Operating system | Written in Java License Apache 2.0 | |
Stable release 3.2.4 / November 24, 2016 Type Pathways editing, analysis, visualization | ||
PathVisio is a free open-source pathway analysis and drawing software. It allows drawing, editing and analysing biological pathways. Visualization of ones experimental data on the pathways for finding relevant pathways that are over-represented in your data set is possible.
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PathVisio provides a basic set of features for pathway drawing, analysis and visualization. Additional features are available as plugins.
History
PathVisio was created primarily at Maastricht University and Gladstone Institutes. The software is developed in Java and it's also used as part of the WikiPathways framework as an applet. Starting from version 3.0 (released in 2012) plugins are OSGi compliant and a plugin directory, describing them, was developed. In 2015 version 3.2 was released. This was the first signed version with a certificate issued by a certification authority. Many of the running issues introduced by java 1.7 and 1.8 with the new security rules were solved. Since 2013 a javascript version (PVJS) is being developed to replace the applet. From 2015 it also allows small edits and in the future it will be a full editor.