NAIL, a software toolset for inferring, analyzing and visualizing regulatory networks

• Published in: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) Vol. 31; no. 2; pp. 277 - 278
• Main Authors: Hurley, Daniel G, Cursons, Joseph, Wang, Yi Kan, Budden, David M, Print, Cristin G, Crampin, Edmund J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 15-01-2015
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computer Graphics; Gene Regulatory Networks; Humans; Software; Systems Biology - methods
• ISSN: 1367-4803; 1367-4811
• DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu612

The wide variety of published approaches for the problem of regulatory network inference makes using multiple inference algorithms complex and time-consuming. Network Analysis and Inference Library (NAIL) is a set of software tools to simplify the range of computational activities involved in regulatory network inference. It uses a modular approach to connect different network inference algorithms to the same visualization and network-based analyses. NAIL is technology-independent and includes an interface layer to allow easy integration of components into other applications.
NAIL is implemented in MATLAB, runs on Windows, Linux and OSX, and is available from SourceForge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/nailsystemsbiology/ for all researchers to use.
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.