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Genomic data visualization on the Web.

Wei Wu·William S Noble
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UNLABELLED: Many types of genomic data can be represented in matrix format, with rows corresponding to genes and columns corresponding to gene features. The heat map is a popular technique for visualizing such data, plotting the data on a two-dimensional grid and using a color scale to represent the magnitude of each matrix entry. Prism is a Web-based software tool for generating annotated heat map visualizations of genome-wide data quickly. The tool provides a selection of genome-specific annotation catalogs as well as a catalog upload capability. The heat maps generated are clickable, allowing the user to drill down to examine specific matrix entries, and gene annotations are linked to relevant genomic databases. AVAILABILITY: http://noble.gs.washington.edu/prism

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Wei Wu, William S Noble. 2004-02-26. Genomic data visualization on the Web.. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics%2Fbth154

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