Everything about Biological data visualization

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Biological data visualizationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: OmicShare tools: A zero‐code interactive online platform for biological data analysis and visualizationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Signal Transduction in Photoreceptor CellsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: VisANT: an online visualization and analysis tool for biological interaction dataCited 201 times
5. Go sideways: European Bioinformatics InstituteA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Structural bioinformaticsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• VisANT: an online visualization and analysis tool for biological interaction data

  Zhenjun Hu, Joseph Mellor, Jie Wu · 2004 · BMC Bioinformatics · 201 citations

• BioCircos.js: an interactive Circos JavaScript library for biological data visualization on web applications

  Ya Cui, Xiaowei Chen, Huaxia Luo · 2016 · Bioinformatics · 140 citations

• bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data

  Adriaan M. Dokter, Peter Desmet, Jurriaan H. Spaaks · 2018 · Ecography · 110 citations

• BioJS: an open source JavaScript framework for biological data visualization

  John Gómez, Leyla J. García, Gustavo A. Salazar · 2013 · Bioinformatics · 98 citations

• Uncertainty Visualization: Concepts, Methods, and Applications in Biological Data Visualization

  Daniel Weiskopf · 2022 · Frontiers in Bioinformatics · 51 citations

• BioVR: a platform for virtual reality assisted biological data integration and visualization

  Jimmy F. Zhang, Alex R. Paciorkowski, Paul A. Craig · 2019 · BMC Bioinformatics · 45 citations

• A taxonomy of visualization tasks for the analysis of biological pathway data

  Paul Murray, Fintan McGee, Angus G. Forbes · 2017 · BMC Bioinformatics · 36 citations

• Visualization Approaches for Multidimensional Biological Image Data

  Curtis T. Rueden, Kevin W. Eliceiri · 2007 · BioTechniques · 31 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• OmicShare tools: A zero‐code interactive online platform for biological data analysis and visualization

  Hongyan Mu, Jianzhou Chen, Wenjie Huang · 2024 · iMeta · 339 citations

• AlcoR: alignment-free simulation, mapping, and visualization of low-complexity regions in biological data

  Jorge M Silva, Weihong Qi, Armando J Pinho · 2022 · GigaScience · 15 citations

• Micro-Computed Tomography Soft Tissue Biological Specimens Image Data Visualization

  Branislav Gaspar, Jana Mrzilkova, Jiri Hozman · 2022 · Applied Sciences · 7 citations

• Use of Elasticsearch-based business intelligence tools for integration and visualization of biological data

  Marie-Pier Scott-Boyer, Pascal Dufour, François Belleau · 2023 · Briefings in Bioinformatics · 3 citations

• Data-dependent visualization of biological networks in the web-browser with NDExEdit

  Florian Auer, Simone Mayer, Frank Kramer · 2022 · PLOS Computational Biology · 2 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Signal Transduction in Photoreceptor CellsPaul A. Hargrave · 1992
• VisionMarr, David · 1982
• Data Visualization for Biomedical ScientistsMaarten Boers · 2022
• 📕Biologically-inspired computing for the artsAnna Ursyn · 2012

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