Title :
An outlook into ultra-scale visualization of large-scale biological data
Author :
Samatova, Nagiza F. ; Breimyer, Paul ; Hendrix, William ; Schmidt, Matthew C. ; Rhyne, Theresa-Marie
Author_Institution :
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC, USA
Abstract :
As bioinformatics has evolved from a reductionistic approach to a complementary multi-scale integrative approach, new challenges in ultra-scale visualization have arisen. Even though visualization is a critical component to large-scale biological data analysis, the ultra-scale nature of systems biology has given rise to novel problems in visualization that are not addressed by existing methods. Visualization is a rich and actively researched domain, and there are many open research questions pertaining to the increasing demands of visualization in bioinformatics. In this paper, we present several broadly important ultra-scale visualization challenges and discuss specific examples of ultra-scale applications in systems biology.
Keywords :
bioinformatics; data visualisation; bioinformatics; large-scale biological data; systems biology; ultra-scale visualization; Bioinformatics; Biological cells; Biological systems; Biology computing; Data visualization; Genomics; Large-scale systems; Proteins; Sequences; Systems biology; bioinformatics; large-scale biological data; ultra-scale visualization; visualization challenges;
Conference_Titel :
Ultrascale Visualization, 2008. UltraVis 2008. Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2861-8
DOI :
10.1109/ULTRAVIS.2008.5154061