Biological Data Visualization

Biological Data Visualization

Currently, the visualization group is involved in a joint project with the Plant Research International in Wageningen. The first milestone in this project is DNAVis, a tool for visualizing annotated DNA sequences, completed during a master project. See, the resulting paper for more details.

Motivation

Recent technological advancements in the life sciences have led to an explosive growth of biomolecular datasets. For an increasing number of species, complete dna sequences are now being determined. Function and expression of many genes and their products are being determined at a very high pace for many organisms and conditions. This puts a high demand on bioinformatics to handle, store, interpret and visualize this data. New ways for visualization are required that can provide overviews of large and complex datasets, that can make the data intuitively accessible and, in doing so, enhance explorability and stimulate discovery of biological phenomena.

Open projects

Currently, two projects are defined:

master projects

internships