A Web-based Visual Analytics Application for Biological Networks
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Date
2020
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
Modern high-throughput methods enable rapidly obtaining transcriptomics data, which includes information about the expression rate of genes. The expression rates are usually given as fold change, which describes the over- or under-expression of each gene. Each gene can be part of one or more biological pathways. A pathway models the interactions between molecules in an organism that lead to a particular chemical change. Consequently, many applications in medical research need to analyze the impact of gene expression changes on the biological pathways of an organism. It allows concluding diseases or other conditions of the organism. We present a web-based visual analytics application that facilitates exploring the network of biological pathways corresponding to a given set of genes. The network is constructed from pathways derived from an external database. Users can interactively zoom and filter the network and get details on demand. Our application is currently work in progress and is developed in close collaboration with medical researchers. In subsequent steps, we strive to add more features, such as the ability to compare data from different individuals or to visualize time series data. Furthermore, we want to extend our application to visualize not just transcriptomics but multi-omics data.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:eurp.20201124,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2020 - Posters},
editor = {Byška, Jan and Jänicke, Stefan},
title = {{A Web-based Visual Analytics Application for Biological Networks}},
author = {Krone, Michael and Dräger, Andreas and Cobanoglu, Ebru and Harke, Manuel Otto and Hoene, Miriam and Weigert, Cora and Lehmann, Rainer},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-105-2},
DOI = {10.2312/eurp.20201124}
}