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Information Visualization for Biological Data

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Part of the book series: Methods in Molecular Biology ((MIMB,volume 1526))

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Visualization is a powerful method to present and explore a large amount of data. It is increasingly important in the life sciences and is used for analyzing different types of biological data, such as structural information, high-throughput data, and biochemical networks. This chapter gives a brief introduction to visualization methods for bioinformatics, presents two commonly used techniques in detail, and discusses a graphical standard for biological networks and cellular processes.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia

    Tobias Czauderna & Falk Schreiber

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Falk Schreiber

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Czauderna, T., Schreiber, F. (2017). Information Visualization for Biological Data. In: Keith, J. (eds) Bioinformatics. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1526. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6613-4_21

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