CBCB scientists Héctor Corrada Bravo and Florin Chelaru publish a paper on Epiviz, a web-based tool for interactive visual analytics of genomics data, in Nature Methods

CBCB faculty Héctor Corrada Bravo and CBCB doctoral student Florin Chelaru, along with undergraduate research assistants, have developed a new, web-based tool that enables researchers to quickly and easily visualize and compare large amounts of genomic information resulting from high-throughput sequencing experiments. They have described the free tool, called Epiviz, in their published paper titled “Epiviz: interactive visual analytics for functional genomics data” on Aug. 3, 2014 in the journal Nature Methods.

Next-generation sequencing has revolutionized functional genomics. These techniques are key to understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying cell function in healthy and diseased individuals and the development of diseases like cancer. Data from multiple experiments need to be integrated, but the growing number of data sets causes a thorough comparison and analysis of results to be challenging. In Corrada Bravo and Chelaru’s paper, Epiviz is shown to be capable of visualizing and analyzing DNA methylation and gene expression data in colon cancer.

“Epiviz: interactive visual analytics for functional genomics data” article: http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v11/n9/full/nmeth.3038.html

For Florin Chelaru’s discussion on Epiviz and his research in bioinformatics and genomic research, please see: http://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2014/08/florin-chelaru-epiviz-research-and...

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