Bioinformatics@Becker

Updates and Musings from the Bioinformatics team at Becker Medical Library


Entries Tagged as 'visualization'

A comparison of science mapping tools

February 8th, 2012 by Kristi · No Comments

The Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology offers a great comparison of different tools for mapping science in their July 2011 issue. These tools are great for leveraging bibliographic data to understand research efforts over time, collaboration, citation patterns, and much more. I wish I had seen this paper when it [...]

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Tags:data, Information, science, visualization

Science of Science Tool v0.5.1 alpha

May 10th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments

This is an amazing tool for data visualization: The Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center is proud to announce the release of Science of Science Tool v0.5.1 alpha which is available for all major operating systems at http://sci2.cns.iu.edu. The tool comes with extensive documentation at http://sci2.wiki.cns.iu.edu, including slides from the recent Social Network Analysis Workshop on [...]

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Tags:2011, software, visualization

Tools for data visualization and analysis

April 24th, 2011 by Kristi · No Comments

Take a look at this great list of 22 free tools for data visualization and analysis for accomplishing everything from data cleaning to visualization.

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OpenHelix Tutorials Now Available

April 27th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments

The Becker Medical Library has purchased a campus subscription to OpenHelix giving faculty, students and staff access to over 90 tutorial suites on bioinformatics and genomic resources. OpenHelix provides tutorials covering many types of resources including protein databases, bioinformatics analysis tools, model organism databases, SNP databases, comparative genomics, pathway and interaction resources and much more. [...]

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Tags:bioinformatics, database, genome browser, genomics, informatics, Information, sequence, software, tutorial, variation, visualization, Washington University

Data Visualization

September 23rd, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments

From Science Blogs this week: The Past, Present, and Future of Data Visualization This week on ScienceBlogs, some of the most notable thinkers in data visualization, computation, and design shared their ideas on cross-disciplinary efforts in their field. Greg J. Smith, a Toronto-based designer and moderator of the Revolutionary Minds Think Tank, mused on “form [...]

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Tags:data, science, software, visualization, Washington University