Kostas Sidiropoulos disceusses the visualsation of biomolecular pathways and Reactome, a free, open-source, curated and peer-reviewed knowledge-base of biomolecular pathways at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Structural properties of molecules are of primary concern in many fields. This report provides a comprehensive overview on techniques that have been developed in the fields of molecular graphics and visualization with a focus on applications in structural biology. The field heavily relies on...

Prof Rod Page discusses bio-visualisation and the Phylogenetics theme at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Poster presented at 3rd BiVi in April 2017.InterMine is an open source data warehouse based in the University of Cambridge. We integrate data from disparate sources and provide a single unified interface, allowing you to access your data via an easy-to-use webapp or API. InterMine has over 30...

Susannah Tringe talks about metagenomics analysis tools and the challenges of gaining a systems-level understanding of a microbial community. She notes that there are some good analysis tools available for analysis at the 16S sequence and unassembled metagenome level, but more effort into...

Martin Krzywinski's keynote from 1st BiVi in 2014. He discusses visual design principles and communicating effectively in pictures.This talk distills core concepts of information design into practical guidelines for creating scientific figures. We will explain how to generate visual vocabularies...

In this talk Michael Sternberg of Imperial reports how their research on protein modelling has led to the development of computer games with a role in scientific education. At Imperial, Chris Reynolds has developed a web-based molecular graphics resource EzMol which is a simple-to-use display of...

Derek Wright discusses the BioLayout Express visualisation tool at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Alexander Lex (http://alexander-lex.com/) talks about enRoute, a tool for dynamic path extraction from biological pathway maps for in-depth experimental data analysis. He highlights the inherent problem with correlating real-life heterogeneous data to pathways, namely that they rarely follow the...

Richard Baldock and Bernard de Bono introduce session on bio-visualisation in Anatomy, Physiology and Atlases at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Martin Miller talks about visualization of proteome data with particular emphasis on modeling phosphorylation sites. He gives a brief introduction into different methods for the analysis of the single cell proteome from antibody-based methods to mass spectrometry and fluorescence tagging. With...

Paul Gardner (http://www.biol.canterbury.ac.nz/people/gardner.shtml) talks about the challenges of visualization of RNA Structures and Alignments in the context of Rfam database (http://rfam.sanger.ac.uk/), a collection of non-coding RNAs, structured cis-regulatory elements and self-splicing...

Poster presentation given at 1st BiVi in 2014 Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Dr Simon Tomlinson discusses the GeneProf visualisation system at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Thomas Ferrin (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/tef/) talks about visualization tools for interactive modeling of biological structures with an emphasis on Chimera (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/), an extensible molecular modeling software.This talk was presented at VIZBI 2013, an international...

Peter Sorger (http://sorger.med.harvard.edu/) and Bang Wong (http://bang.clearscience.info/) talk about the challenges of visualising large sets of multidimensional data (e.g. single cell imaging, dose-response assays, multiplex biochemistry etc.).This video was filmed and distributed with...

Jim Zheng (http://www.uthouston.edu/sbmi/faculty-and-staff/jim-zheng.htm) talks about the importance of understanding the 3D structure of genome and gives an introduction into Genome3D framework (http://www.genome3d.org/) which allows integration of multi-scale structural and genomic data within...

Dr Manuel Corpas discusses the BioJS Javascript component library at the 1st BiVi Annual Meeting in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Prof Tom Freeman discusses bio-visualisation within the Pathway theme at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Poster presentation at 3rd BiVi in April 2017. Created at: 3rd BiVi Annual Meeting (2017).

Roland Schwarz's keynote about the joint visualisation and analysis of large sequence data with Alvis and Sequence Bundles at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

In this presentation David Goodsell reveals the beauty of science through his scientific and artistic endeavors. He explores the visual techniques which have been used to communicate the detail of the molecular biology world to different audiences.David Goodsell (http://bit.ly/DGoodsell) is an...

Esther Rheinbay (http://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/bradley_bernstein) talks about the current challenges of visualizing rapidly expanding epigenetic data and showcases some of the different tools which are available to researchers as part of the Integrative Genome Viewer...

Dr James Proctor of the University of Dundee discusses the Jalview tool in the Vis Tools & Bio Challenges session of the 1st BiVi Annual Meeting Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Stephen Taylor discusses Zegami with examples and latest developments at 3rd BiVi in April 2017.Zegami has the potential to do for images what the spreadsheet did for number calculations. It provides a way of manipulating images and derived values (from the images themselves or annotated...

Bernard de Bono presents a talk on using ApiNATOMY for the visualisation of multiscale physiology circuitboards at 3rd BiVi Annual Meeting in April 2017. Created at: 3rd BiVi Annual Meeting (2017).

Prof Richard Baldock discusses bio-visualisation within the Anatomy, Physiology and Atlases theme Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Martin Strauch presents a brief overview of his BioVis 2012 Honorable Mention paper on visualising odors with insect brains.This video was filmed and distributed with permission under a Creative Commons license. Created at: VIZBI 2013.

Anil S Thanki presents two visulaisation tools: TGAC Browser and Aequatus as 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Dr A J Pretorius discusses Cell-o-pane, a cell lineage visulaisation tool at 1st BiVi in 2014. As assoicated poster also presented a the meeting is included. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Poster presentation at 3rd BiVi in April 2017. Created at: 3rd BiVi Annual Meeting (2017).

Introduction to the Bivi community presented as the introductory talk at the 1st Bivi Annual Meeting. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Prof. Frederic Fol Leymarie discusses the Foldsynth project at 1st BiVi in 2014. A poster presented at the meeting is also included. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Daniel Haehn talks about visualising medical and scientific data (such as MRI and CT scans, microscopy scan stacks etc.) in 3D and introduces some of the open-source tools available.This video was filmed and distributed with permission under a Creative Common license. Created at: VIZBI 2013.

Colin Combe discusses the visualisation of cross-linking/mass spectrometry data at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Stephen Taylor describes and demonstrates Zegami at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Felice Frankel delivers her keynote address in which she talks about how to effectively use visual tools to communicate science.This video was filmed and distributed with permission under a Creative Commons license. Created at: VIZBI 2013.

Poster presentation at 1st BiVi in 2014 regarding the user evaluation of the Helium visualisaiton tool. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Cole Trapnell (http://www.broadinstitute.org/~cole/) focuses on isoform-resolution analysis of RNA -seq. RNA-seq is an assay used to determine the abundance of RNA transcripts in a transcriptome, the results of which can be used for gene discovery and expression analysis. In his talk Cole...

Genetic and environmental variation affect all complex human traits and disorders. Recent large-scale genome-wide association studies have identified some of the specific genetic variants, and we often assume these associations will hold true irrespective of context. However, our research shows...

Michael Ball from BBSRC's closing remarks on Data and Data Visualisation from 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie demonstrates Foldsynth 2.0 visualisation tool at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Martin Krzywinski (http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/) gives a great primer on the key principles of effective visual design in biological sciences. During the talk he highlights the principles with examples from various peer-reviewed publications and discusses the practical aspects of effective figure...

Poster presentation at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Mark Henkelman gives an introduction on the use of 3D imaging in neuroanatomy to explore consequences of genetic alterations on anatomical structures and infer function.This video was filmed and distributed with permission under a Creative Commons license. Created at: VIZBI 2013.

Scooter Morris (http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/home/scooter/) talks about the opportunities and challenges in mapping biological networks and gives an brief overview of Cytoscape (http://www.cytoscape.org/), an open source bioinformatics software platform for visualizing molecular interaction...

Sara Irina Fabrikant discusses how analysis of scientific data can be enhanced using information visualization, visual analytics, cognition principles, and graphical user interface design. She focuses on the use of evaluation to valid visualization approaches. This talk was presented at VIZBI...

Prof Michael Sternberg introduces bio-visualisation in the Molecular theme from a user perspective at 1st BiVi in 2014. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Reactome provides curated human biological pathways representing the consensus view of the molecular events involved. Pathway Diagrams show mechanistic details, using a style based on SBGN. A unique Overview represents all pathways in a single view. Analysis results and expression data are...

Poster presentation from 1st BiVi in 2014 Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

The increasing scale and complexity of genome scale studies has led to more widespread use of unsupervised analysis pipelines and reduced inspection and sanity checking of the underlying data.  Here we will illustrate how the use of interactive visualisation tools along with an explorative...

A 3rd BiVi 2017 Keynote Presentation by Marc Streit who discusses visual exploration and sharing discoveries with examples from the Caleydo project.Chaired by Tom FreemanThe primary goal of visual data exploration tools is to enable the discovery of new insights. To justify and reproduce...

Sean O'Donoghue (http://odonoghuelab.org) talks about molecular spatial data and the emerging issue of sequence-structure gap mainly due to experimental difficulties in obtaining reliable (or any) structure information for a given protein. In his talk, he also gives a brief demonstration of...

Prof Michael Sternberg introduces the Molecular bio-visualsation session at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Poster presentation by Dr Maya Topf at 1st BiVi Annual Meeting in 2014 Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Andy Yates introduces the Genomes session at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Daniel Janies showcases SupraMap, a web-based app that integrates genetic sequences of pathogens with geographic data points to map the spread of diseases and track mutations.This video was filmed and distributed with permission under a Creative Commons license. Created at: VIZBI 2013.

Stephen Taylor discusses the Zegami visualisation tool at 1st BiVi in 2014. An associated poster is also available. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

A 3rd BiVi 2017 Keynote Presentation by Bang Wong, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard and Department of Art as Applied to Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineChaired by: Geoff BartonThe data generated by the biomedical research community hold tremendous potential to inform our...

Yo Yehudi describes Intermine, an open source data warehouse and analysis system at 2nd BiVi in 2015 Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Ting Wang (http://wang.wustl.edu/) addresses many of the challenges of navigating the complexity of genomic data and showcases the WashU Epigenome Browser that he is developing. The browser aims to give investigators maximum flexibility to explore and navigate the available genomic data in...

Bill Hill and Richard Baldock describe MARender, a simple JavaScipt library for biomedical visualisation at 2nd BiVi in 2015.  Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Poster presentation at 3rd BiVi in April 2017.Presenitng a suite of web applications, developed for the PRECISION-Parc initiative, to provide integrative analyses of genomic and transcription data from patient primary samples, cell lines and xenografts, as well as clinical data on patient...

Dr Nils Gehlenborg gives his keynote at 1st BiVi in 2014. The rapid proliferation of high quality, low cost genome-wide measurement technologies such as whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing, as well as advances in epigenomics and proteomics, are enabling researchers to perform studies that...

Ian Sillitoe (http://orengogroup.info/) talks about the protein structure classification with particular emphasis on superfamily-centric taxonomy which is used in the CATH (http://www.cathdb.info/) database.This video was filmed and distributed with permission under a Creative Commons...

Sean Megason (http://megason.med.harvard.edu/) talks about the challenges and caveats of multiscale imaging, visualisation and analysis and highlights some of the tools that are used for processing and analysis of in toto imaging such as GoFigure2 (http://www.gofigure2.org/) and ACME...

Gisela Storz (http://irp.nih.gov/pi/gisela-storz) talks about the reliability and co-relation of anti-sense RNA sequence data. Comparison of RNA seq data across different experiments and from various sources reveals some discrepancies and lack of overlap. While the majority of RNA seq data is...

Prof David Burt introduces the Genomes theme in bio-visualisation. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.

Dr Stephen Laycock describes using InteractinHaptiMOL to interact with large biomolecules using haptic feedback at 2nd BiVi in 2015. Created at: 2nd BiVi Annual Meeting.

Anil Thanki describes the Aequatus-vis JavaScript plugin to visualise homologous genes through alignment and phylogeny information at 2nd BiVi in 2015. aequatus-vis preserves teh interactive functionality of Aequatus, an open-source web based tool to visualise homologous genes with phylogenetic...

Bruno Sobral demonstrates how collaboration with the bench scientists to learn about their needs, uses and challenges can lead to design of more effective resources for data exploration and analysis. He emphasises the importance of designing in a user-centric manner and highlights the importance...

Dr Roy Ruddle discusses large displays for visualisation and the Leeds Virtual Microscope and Orchestral tools at 1st BiVi in 2014. Posters presented regarding the two tools discussed are also included. Created at: 1st BiVi Annual Meeting.