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Brome

a browser for omes

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Brome is a software application for data visualization of large-scale data sets. It uses the concept of biochemical networks to display data of molecules that are related by existing knowleage. Brome can display simultaneously data from a) metabolites and b) gene expression or proteomics. Brome provides the KEGG maps as templates for visualization based on metabolic pathways. It also provides a set of metabolite neighborhood maps, which show all reactions that transform a metabolite. In both cases the level of metabolites, mRNA or proteins is represented in a color scale.

Brome can be used as a Graphical User Interface, or it can be driven from the command line allowing images to be created by other programs in batch mode (our system DOME uses this option).

Brome was written using the QT toolkit and it can run on Windows, Linux, Solaris, and other Unix-like systems. A current bug prevents it from working well on OS X, though.

Download

You can build Brome from source, which will required having the QT toolkit (which is free for non-commercial applications such as Brome). Alternatively you can download a binary for Windows and one for Linux (a static built without library dependencies). If you are installing DOME on a Linux system, then the easiest option is to download the binary.

• Source: Brome-1.0.tar.gz (6.61 Mb) Unpack it and follow the instructions in the file INSTALL.
• Linux binary: Brome-1.0-linux-binary.tar.gz (10.54 Mb) Unpack where you want Brome installed. A suggestion is to put it in /usr/local, then the executable will be in /usr/local/bin/Brome and the map files in /usr/local/share/Brome/maps.
• Windows binary: to appear soon

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