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Cytoscape (Network) templates
Biological / knowledge networks with force-directed, circular, breadth-first layouts. Edge styling, node colouring, large-graph rendering.
Biology — Seed Germination
Hormonal and metabolic events from imbibition to seedling.
Life SciencesBiology — Bacterial Quorum Sensing
Population-density signalling that switches on group behaviours.
Life SciencesBiology — Biofilm Formation
Stages from free-swimming cells to a dispersing biofilm.
Life SciencesBiology — Bacterial Sporulation
Endospore formation in Bacillus under starvation.
Life SciencesBiology — Two-Component Signalling
The bacterial sensor-kinase / response-regulator system.
Life SciencesBiology — Systemic Acquired Resistance
How a local infection primes whole-plant immunity.
Life SciencesBiology — Gastrulation & Germ Layers
Formation of the three germ layers and their derivatives.
Life SciencesBiology — Fight-or-Flight Response
The sympathetic / adrenal stress response.
Life SciencesBiology — Visual Phototransduction
How light becomes a neural signal in a rod cell.
Life SciencesBiology — Muscle Contraction (Sliding Filament)
From nerve impulse to the sliding of actin and myosin.
Life SciencesBiology — Action Potential Phases
The ionic phases of a neuronal action potential.
Life SciencesBiology — Digestive Enzyme Action
Where the major digestive enzymes act on food.
Life SciencesBiology — Wound Healing
The four overlapping phases of tissue repair.
Life SciencesBiology — Bone Remodelling
The balance of bone resorption and formation.
Life SciencesChemistry — Haber Process
Industrial synthesis of ammonia.
Chemistry & PhysicsChemistry — Contact Process
Industrial manufacture of sulfuric acid.
Chemistry & PhysicsChemistry — Ostwald Process
Industrial manufacture of nitric acid.
Chemistry & PhysicsChemistry — Chloralkali Process
Electrolysis of brine for chlorine and sodium hydroxide.
Chemistry & PhysicsChemistry — Catalytic Cracking
Breaking long hydrocarbons into useful fractions.
Chemistry & PhysicsChemistry — Industrial Fermentation
Producing ethanol from sugars by yeast.
Chemistry & PhysicsBiology — Tryptophan (trp) Operon
A repressible operon switched off by its end product.
Life SciencesBiology — Thermoregulation
Negative-feedback control of body temperature.
Life SciencesBiology — Calcium Homeostasis
PTH and calcitonin balance blood calcium.
Life SciencesBiology — Iron Homeostasis
Absorption, transport and storage of iron.
Life SciencesBiology — Countercurrent Multiplier (Kidney)
How the loop of Henle concentrates urine.
Life SciencesBiology — Spermatogenesis
Formation of sperm from stem cells.
Life SciencesBiology — Oogenesis
Formation of the egg cell, with polar bodies.
Life SciencesBiology — Gas Exchange at the Alveolus
Oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange in the lungs.
Life SciencesBiology — Antibody Production (Clonal Selection)
How B cells are selected and make antibodies.
Life SciencesBiology — Phagocytosis
How a phagocyte engulfs and destroys a pathogen.
Life SciencesBiology — Vaccination & Immune Memory
How a vaccine produces lasting immunity.
Life SciencesBiology — Allergic Response
The IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction.
Life SciencesBiology — The Lymphatic System
How tissue fluid becomes lymph and returns to blood.
Life SciencesBiology — Enterohepatic Circulation
The recycling of bile acids between gut and liver.
Life SciencesBiology — Glucose-Alanine Cycle
Moving nitrogen and carbon between muscle and liver.
Life SciencesBiology — Stomach Acid Secretion
Control of HCl release by parietal cells.
Life SciencesBiology — Glyoxylate Cycle
A TCA bypass that lets plants make sugars from fat.
Life SciencesBiology — Pyrimidine Synthesis
De novo synthesis of pyrimidine nucleotides.
Life SciencesBiology — Methionine / SAM Cycle
The one-carbon cycle that supplies methyl groups.
Life SciencesBiology — Melanin Synthesis
Melanogenesis from tyrosine.
Life SciencesBiology — Steroidogenesis
Steroid hormones made from cholesterol.
Life SciencesBiology — Glutathione Antioxidant Cycle
How glutathione neutralises reactive oxygen species.
Life SciencesBiology — Folate Cycle
One-carbon transfer for DNA synthesis and methylation.
Life SciencesBiology — Heme Degradation (Bilirubin)
Breakdown of haem from old red blood cells.
Life SciencesBiology — Purine Degradation (Uric Acid)
Breakdown of purines to uric acid.
Life SciencesBiology — Galactose Metabolism
The Leloir pathway feeding galactose into glycolysis.
Life SciencesBiology — Fructose Metabolism
Liver fructolysis entering glycolysis.
Life SciencesBiology — Glycogenesis
Building glycogen from glucose.
Life SciencesBiology — Glycogenolysis
Breaking glycogen down to release glucose.
Life SciencesBiology — Lipolysis
Mobilising stored fat for energy.
Life SciencesBiology — Lipogenesis
Synthesising fat from excess carbohydrate.
Life SciencesBiology — Sphingolipid Synthesis
Building ceramide and complex sphingolipids.
Life SciencesBiology — Transamination
Transferring amino groups between amino and keto acids.
Life SciencesBiology — Glutaminolysis
Using glutamine to fuel the TCA cycle.
Life SciencesBiology — Malate-Aspartate Shuttle
Moving NADH reducing equivalents into mitochondria.
Life SciencesBiology — Nucleotide Salvage Pathway
Recycling free bases into nucleotides (HGPRT).
Life SciencesBiology — Fibrinolysis
Breaking down a blood clot.
Life SciencesBiology — Polyamine Synthesis
Putrescine, spermidine and spermine production.
Life SciencesBiology — Creatine Synthesis
Making creatine and the phosphocreatine energy store.
Life SciencesBiology — Fates of Pyruvate
The metabolic branch points from pyruvate.
Life SciencesBiology — Serotonin & Melatonin Synthesis
From tryptophan to serotonin and melatonin.
Life SciencesBiology — Histamine Synthesis
Histamine production and its release in allergy.
Life SciencesBiology — GABA Synthesis & Shunt
The brain's main inhibitory neurotransmitter.
Life SciencesBiology — Nitric Oxide Signalling
NO production and vasodilation via cGMP.
Life SciencesBiology — Eicosanoid Synthesis
Prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes from arachidonic acid.
Life SciencesBiology — Catecholamine Degradation
Breakdown of dopamine and noradrenaline by MAO and COMT.
Life SciencesBiology — Ketone Body Utilisation
Burning ketone bodies for energy in the brain and heart.
Life SciencesBiology — Cholesterol Transport (LDL/HDL)
Forward and reverse cholesterol transport.
Life SciencesBiology — Erythropoiesis
Red blood cell production driven by erythropoietin.
Life SciencesBiology — Platelet Activation
From vessel injury to a platelet plug.
Life SciencesBiology — Lipoprotein Metabolism
Chylomicron handling of dietary fat.
Life SciencesBiology — Angiogenesis
How hypoxia drives new blood-vessel growth.
Life SciencesBiology — Autophagy
Self-digestion and recycling of cell components.
Life SciencesBiology — DNA Repair Pathways
Sensing damage and choosing a repair route.
Life SciencesBiology — Telomere Maintenance
Telomere shortening, senescence and telomerase.
Life SciencesBiology — Unfolded Protein Response
The ER stress response to misfolded proteins.
Life SciencesBiology — Insulin Secretion
How a beta cell senses glucose and releases insulin.
Life SciencesBiology — Appetite Regulation
Leptin and ghrelin signalling to the hypothalamus.
Life SciencesBiology — Complement (Classical Pathway)
Antibody-triggered complement to the membrane attack complex.
Life SciencesBiology — Pulmonary Surfactant
How surfactant keeps alveoli open.
Life SciencesBiology — Bicarbonate Buffer System
How the body keeps blood pH near 7.4.
Life SciencesBiology — Phototropism
How auxin redistribution bends a shoot toward light.
Life SciencesBiology — Stomatal Control
Guard-cell turgor opening and closing stomata.
Life SciencesBiology — Phloem Translocation
Pressure-flow of sucrose from source to sink.
Life SciencesBiology — CRISPR-Cas9 Mechanism
Guided cleavage and the two repair outcomes.
Life SciencesBiology — RNA Interference
siRNA-guided silencing of target mRNA.
Life SciencesBiology — RNA Splicing
Removing introns and joining exons (with alternative splicing).
Life SciencesBiology — Stages of Mitosis
The phases of nuclear division and cytokinesis.
Life SciencesBiology — Stages of Meiosis
Two divisions producing four haploid gametes.
Life SciencesBiology — The Secretory Pathway
Protein flow from ribosome to exocytosis.
Life SciencesBiology — Ferroptosis
Iron-dependent cell death by lipid peroxidation.
Life SciencesBiology — Vesicle Transport
Budding, trafficking and SNARE-mediated fusion.
Life SciencesBiology — The Cytoskeleton
The three filament systems and their roles.
Life SciencesBiology — T-Cell Activation
Antigen recognition and co-stimulation activating a T cell.
Life SciencesBiology — Immune Checkpoint (PD-1)
How tumours exploit PD-1, and how inhibitors release the brake.
Life SciencesBiology — Interferon Response
Antiviral signalling to neighbouring cells.
Life SciencesBiology — MHC Class I Presentation
Displaying intracellular peptides to CD8+ T cells.
Life SciencesBiology — The Inflammasome
NLRP3 sensing danger and maturing IL-1beta.
Life SciencesBiology — Chemoreceptor Control of Breathing
How blood gas levels regulate ventilation.
Life SciencesBiology — Micturition Reflex
The bladder-emptying reflex with cortical override.
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