Using Visualization as an Interface to Heterogeneous Gene Expression Data Through

描述(由申请人提供)：如果没有建立一个以尽可能好的方式提供信息的接口，任何关于生物医学研究社区能够访问完全集成的生物医学知识和实验数据的无缝网络的世界的愿景都是不完整的。Yumetech与华盛顿大学合作，试图通过创建一个界面来解决这一挑战，该界面允许用户使用3D可视化来查看和访问密集的异类集成数据集。通过增强工作可视化原型Biolucida的功能，我们将可视化正常3D人体解剖的结构，以说明整个人体的功能基因表达数据。目前作为虚拟解剖教学工具的当前原型将进行优化，以获得更好的性能和支持，并将实施数据导入场景的机制。最终产品将是一个可导航的虚拟世界(X3D格式)，能够在网络上查看，任何研究人员都可以在其中调查整个人体的基因表达趋势。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Any vision of a world where the biomedical research community has access to a seamless network of fully integrated biomedical knowledge and experimental data is incomplete without the creation of an interface to deliver the information in the best possible way. Yumetech, in collaboration with the University of Washington, seeks to address this challenge by creating an interface which allows the user to view and access dense sets of heterogeneous integrated data using 3D visualization. By augmenting the functionality of working visualization prototype, Biolucida, we will visualize structures of normal 3D human anatomy to illustrate functional gene expression data throughout the human body. The current prototype, which serves currently as a virtual anatomy instruction tool, will be optimized toward better performance and support, and mechanisms of data importation into the scene will be implemented. The end product will be a navigable virtual world (in X3D) capable of being viewed over the web, where any researcher can survey gene expression trends throughout the human body.