CBCB scientists Héctor Corrada Bravo and Florin Chelaru publish a paper on Epiviz, a web-based tool for interactive visual analytics of genomics data, in Nature Methods
Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized functional genomics. These techniques are key to understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying cell function in healthy and diseased individuals and the development of diseases like cancer. Data from multiple experiments need to be integrated, but the growing number of data sets causes a thorough comparison and analysis of results to be challenging. In Corrada Bravo and Chelaru’s paper, Epiviz is shown to be capable of visualizing and analyzing DNA methylation and gene expression data in colon cancer.
“Epiviz: interactive visual analytics for functional genomics data” article: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n9/full/nmeth.3038.html
For Florin Chelaru’s discussion on Epiviz and his research in bioinformatics and genomic research, please see: http://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2014/08/florin-chelaru-epiviz-research-and...
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