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MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison

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...

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Autores principales: Song, Baoxing, Su, Xiaoquan, Xu, Jian, Ning, Kang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048998
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author Song, Baoxing
Su, Xiaoquan
Xu, Jian
Ning, Kang
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Xu, Jian
Ning, Kang
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description 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 visualization cannot fulfill all of these needs, and it is extremely hard to organize all of these visualization effects in a systematic manner. An extendable, interactive visualization tool would be the method of choice to fulfill all of these visualization needs. In this paper, we have present MetaSee, an extendable toolbox that facilitates the interactive visualization of metagenomic samples of interests. The main components of MetaSee include: (I) a core visualization engine that is composed of different views for comparison of multiple samples: Global view, Phylogenetic view, Sample view and Taxa view, as well as link-out for more in-depth analysis; (II) front-end user interface with real metagenomic models that connect to the above core visualization engine and (III) open-source portal for the development of plug-ins for MetaSee. This integrative visualization tool not only provides the visualization effects, but also enables researchers to perform in-depth analysis of the metagenomic samples of interests. Moreover, its open-source portal allows for the design of plug-ins for MetaSee, which would facilitate the development of any additional visualization effects.
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spelling pubmed-34935482012-11-09 MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison Song, Baoxing Su, Xiaoquan Xu, Jian Ning, Kang PLoS One Research Article 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 visualization cannot fulfill all of these needs, and it is extremely hard to organize all of these visualization effects in a systematic manner. An extendable, interactive visualization tool would be the method of choice to fulfill all of these visualization needs. In this paper, we have present MetaSee, an extendable toolbox that facilitates the interactive visualization of metagenomic samples of interests. The main components of MetaSee include: (I) a core visualization engine that is composed of different views for comparison of multiple samples: Global view, Phylogenetic view, Sample view and Taxa view, as well as link-out for more in-depth analysis; (II) front-end user interface with real metagenomic models that connect to the above core visualization engine and (III) open-source portal for the development of plug-ins for MetaSee. This integrative visualization tool not only provides the visualization effects, but also enables researchers to perform in-depth analysis of the metagenomic samples of interests. Moreover, its open-source portal allows for the design of plug-ins for MetaSee, which would facilitate the development of any additional visualization effects. Public Library of Science 2012-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3493548/ /pubmed/23145044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048998 Text en © 2012 Song et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Song, Baoxing
Su, Xiaoquan
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Ning, Kang
MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison
title MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison
title_full MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison
title_fullStr MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison
title_full_unstemmed MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison
title_short MetaSee: An Interactive and Extendable Visualization Toolbox for Metagenomic Sample Analysis and Comparison
title_sort metasee: an interactive and extendable visualization toolbox for metagenomic sample analysis and comparison
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3493548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23145044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048998
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