We have developed a framework for the visual integration and exploration of multi-scale biomedical data, which includes anatomical and molecular components. We have also created a Java-based software ...system that integrates molecular information, such as gene expression data, into a three-dimensional digital atlas of the male adult human anatomy. Our atlas is structured according to the Terminologia Anatomica. The underlying data-indexing mechanism uses open standards and semantic ontology-processing tools to establish the associations between heterogeneous data types. The software system makes an extensive use of virtual reality visualization.
The Bluejay genome browser (Browser for Linear Units in Java™) is a flexible visualization environment for biological sequences, which is capable of producing high-quality graphical outputs ...(http://bluejay.ucalgary.ca). We have recently added functionalities to Bluejay to realize the true potential of 2D bioinformatics visualization. We describe the three major new functionalities that will be of added value to the user: (i) exploration of large genomes using level-of-detail management; (ii) comparative visualization of multiple genomes; (iii) visualization of microarray data in a genomic context.
