Visualizing Systems Biology

Slides:
https://rbvi.github.io/chimera-tutorials/presentations/VizBI-2018.html#/

John "Scooter" Morris

VIZBI 2018
29 March 2018

Having a Conversation with Systems Biology Data

Slides:
https://rbvi.github.io/chimera-tutorials/presentations/VizBI-2018.html#/

John "Scooter" Morris

VIZBI 2018
29 March 2018

Main Points

• Importance of exploratory visualizations
  • Particularly for systems biology
• Interaction techniques exist for building exploraratory visualizations
• Value in building on existing tools/visualization approaches

Conclusions

• The data-intensive nature of systems biology benefits from exploratory visualizations
• Exploratory visualizations might be very different than those used for publication or presentation
• Interaction techniques for exploratory visualization are well-known and very useful
• Extending and linking existing tools/visualizations together can be very effective
  • Can get multiplicative benefits → new exploration capabilities for users

Acknowledgements

Questions?

• Here are some that I would ask me:
  • Was it useful?? Did it provide any insight
  • Yuck - node link diagrams are evil. Isn't there another way??
  • But seriously, why did you choose the particular visualizations you did?
  • How many people use this tool?
  • How long did it take to put this together?
  • What was the user feedback for the system?

Backup slides -- networks