Welcome to BiNA

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The Biological Network Analyzer (BiNA) is a workbench for visualizing and analyzing biological networks. Various biological networks can be displayed, edited and analyzed.

BiNA and all its plug-ins (with the exception of the yFiles plug-in) are available under LGPLv3. The yFiles plug-in is only available for free for academic usage. If you have commercial interests, please contact us.

BiNA 2.3.1 released

2012-09-11

New Features and Changes

  • Support for searching of pathways containing things from a series shon in the Analysis Data Explorer view. We support different scoring methods including enrichment score.
  • Id translation for id lists of serieses using UniProt ID mapping service.
  • Improved speed for data base access.

Fixed Bugs

  • Log entries in the early startup are now written to the log file.
  • Fixed problem with n.a. data for visibility mapping point.

BiNA 2.3.0 released

2012-08-17

New Features and Changes

We improved a lot of things under the hood, but the most important ones for you are:

  • If BiNA is already running and you start it again with a different file to open, the existing instance will open the requested files.This works also for the Webstart version.
  • Data mapping now supports multiple values per id. This features the visualization of multiple time-series from one series per node.
  • Improved mapping legends and image exporter now support exporting of mapping legends.
  • Added some new functions for playing around with serieses (e.g., global scaling)
  • Improved SwissProt sub-cellular compartment locator by parsing GO terms.
  • Improved side-compound handling for metabolic visualization style by combining with alias functionality.
  • New File->Open URL... menu.
  • New File->Recent menu containg recently opened/saved files.
  • Importing/exporting of SIF format supports now inline labeling of complexes/families.
  • Support for Windows shortcuts in bundle folder.

Fixed Bugs

  • There are a large number of BugFixes, which are noted in the mercurial commit messages. We also removed a number of memory leaks, coming from not diposed swing dialogs.

BiNA 2.2.1 released

2012-05-28

  • Faster rendering of networks.
  • Some smaller fixes.

BiNA 2.2.0 released

2012-05-11

  • New: Support for accessing a Rserve server.
  • New: Improvement of installation/update wizard.
  • New: Swissprot protein location can be directly used for assigning cellular components in layered background model.
  • Improved native access to R via JRI.
  • A large number of smaller fixes.