MetaSee: an interactive and extendable visualization toolbox for metagenomic sample analysis and comparison.

ABSTRACT: The NGS (next generation sequencing)-based metagenomic data analysis is becoming the mainstream for the study of microbial communities. Faced with a large amount of data in metagenomic research, effective data visualization is important for scientists to effectively explore, interpret and manipulate such rich information. The visualization of the metagenomic data, especially multi-sample data, is one of the most critical challenges. The different data sample sources, sequencing approaches and heterogeneous data formats make robust and seamless data visualization difficult. Moreover, researchers have different focuses on metagenomic studies: taxonomical or functional, sample-centric or genome-centric, single sample or multiple samples, etc. However, current efforts in metagenomic data visua

SUBMITTER: Song B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3493548 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature