Molecules to Maps: Tools for Visualization and Interaction in Support of Computational Biology

E.T. Kraemer
Department of Computer Science
The University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602

and

T.E. Ferrin
Computer Graphics Laboratory
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0446

ABSTRACT

The volume of data produced by genome projects, X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy, and electron and confocal microscopy present the bioinformatics community with new challenges for analyzing, understanding, and exchanging this data. At the 1998 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, a track entitled ``Molecules to Maps: Tools for Visualization and Interaction in Computational Biology'' provided tool developers and users with the opportunity to discuss advances in tools and techniques to assist scientists in evaluating, absorbing, navigating, and correlating this sea of information, through visualization and user interaction. In this paper, we present these advances and discuss some of the challenges that remain to be solved.

A reprint of this paper is available on request.

tef@cgl.ucsf.edu / January 1999