• Redesigned VizMapper Interface
The newly redesigned VizMapper interface makes customizing visual styles easy
• control colors, labeling and opacity to effectively visualize your data
• new panel layout exposes more VizMapper functionality
• intuitive slide controls allow you to handle continuous attributes with ease
• Redesigned Filters Interface
The new Filters interface makes criteria-based selection simple
• develop simple criteria to highlight important elements in your network
• combine criteria to make more advanced, multivariate selections
• new panel layout displays the most common controls
• Plugin Manager
Use the Plugin Manager to install, update, and remove Cytoscape plugins on the fly
• install plugins from within Cytoscape to add new functionality
• check for updates on already installed plugins
• customize Plugin Manager to look for plugins at other download sites (Cytoscape provides a default site for plugin distribution [link])
• Layout Manager
Advanced layout parameters are now under your control
• look under the hood of Cytoscape layout algorithms
• modify layout parameters to optimize the display of your networks
• Other New Functions and Features:
• Undo and Redo
• Node Grouping, Metanodes and Hyperedges
• Node Stacking (in addition to align and distribute)

Funding for Cytoscape is provided by a federal grant from the U.S. National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under award number GM070743-01 and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) . Corporate funding is provided through a contract from Unilever PLC.