Visualization and Bio-informatics Breakout

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Visualization and Bio-informaticsBreakout

• Chair Julian Gallop
• Scribe Stephen Pickles

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people

• Julian Gallop
• Neil Hanlon
• Ela Hunt
• Matt Neilson
• Stephen Pickles

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Visualization Challenges

• Single chromosome map solved - tools exist today
• Comparison of genomes
• Not solved Too many lines in limited screen
  real-estate, perceptual bottlenecks,
• Visualization and exploration of large (eg.
  phylogenetic) trees
• Polymer docking
• Generally, existing tools insufficiently
  interactive
• Cf. clickable CGI-generated GIFs

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Computing infrastructure challenges

• Babel of different data types and formats
• Data volumes exploding
• Data dimensionality growing
• Image data captured at source (eg. cellular
  datasets)
• Escalating issues of
• Data storage
• Data transfer
• Metadata
• Public access
• Interoperability of tools

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Computing infrastructure ingredients of a
solution

• XML? Configuration language(s) for many datatypes
  in biology
• Sequence, protein structure,
• Interoperable tools
• Simplicity, ease of use
• Workflow
• Policies on data sharing supported by funding
  bodies