BirdsEyeView (BEV): graphical overviews of experimental data

作者：Zhang Lifeng^*; Berleant Daniel; Wang Yi; Li Ling; Cook Diane; Wurtele Eve Syrkin

来源：BMC Bioinformatics, 2012, 13: S11.

DOI：10.1186/1471-2105-13-S15-S11

Background: Analyzing global experimental data can be tedious and time-consuming. Thus, helping biologists see results as quickly and easily as possible can facilitate biological research, and is the purpose of the software we describe. %26lt;br%26gt;Results: We present BirdsEyeView, a software system for visualizing experimental transcriptomic data using different views that users can switch among and compare. BirdsEyeView graphically maps data to three views: Cellular Map (currently a plant cell), Pathway Tree with dynamic mapping, and Gene Ontology http://www.geneontology.org Biological Processes and Molecular Functions. By displaying color-coded values for transcript levels across different views, BirdsEyeView can assist users in developing hypotheses about their experiment results. %26lt;br%26gt;Conclusions: BirdsEyeView is a software system available as a Java Webstart package for visualizing transcriptomic data in the context of different biological views to assist biologists in investigating experimental results. BirdsEyeView can be obtained from http://metnetdb.org/MetNet_BirdsEyeView.htm.

• 出版日期2012-9-11