SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION USING W3C STANDARDS

本子项目是利用由NIH/NCRR资助的中心赠款提供的资源的众多研究子项目之一。子项目和研究者（PI）可能已经从另一个NIH来源获得了主要资金，因此可以在其他CRISP条目中表示。列出的机构是中心的，不一定是研究者的机构。网络的出现对科学实践产生了重大而持久的影响。数据、结果、过程和科学信息可以下载，或者作为静态图像的文本查看。要在网络上交互式地查看图形数据，需要特殊的插件技术或Java小程序，这增加了访问的复杂性和障碍。W3C最近的标准活动承诺通过一种类似于HTML的丰富的声明性图形语言（称为可伸缩矢量图形（SVG））来改善这些障碍。SVG已经在Visio、Photoshop和Illustrator等图形包中广泛实现，但如果不添加插件，还不能通过web浏览器使用。通过与开源web浏览器开发社区的合作，我们正在扩展基于Mozilla的浏览器（如Firefox、Mozilla）的功能，以支持使用SVG实现图形数据的可视化。随着SVG作为Firefox的原生组件发布，HTML中的文本和图像将能够与SVG描述的可伸缩矢量图形混合在一起。这将用于加强对RBVI提供的科学资源和信息的获取。例如，我们计划实现一个色谱查看器，用于在web浏览器中直接显示DNA序列“痕迹”。这将直接有利于RBVI内的两个合作项目，膜转运体药物遗传学（PMT）和BayGenomics，以及对一般DNA测序社区非常有用。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The advent of the web has had a significant and lasting impact on the practice of Science. Data, results, procedures, and scientific information can be downloaded, or viewed as text with static images. To view graphical data interactively on the web has required special plug-in technologies or Java applets which increase the complexity and hurdles to access. Recent standards activities by the W3C promise to ameliorate these hurdles through a rich declarative graphical language similar to HTML called Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). SVG is already widely implemented in graphics packages such as Visio, Photoshop, and Illustrator, but has not been available through a web browser without the addition of a plug-in. Through collaboration with the open-source web-browser development community, we are extending the functionality of the Mozilla-based browsers (e.g., Firefox, Mozilla) to support the use of SVG for visualization of graphical data. With the release of SVG as a native component of Firefox, text and images within HTML will be able to be mixed with scalable vector graphics described via SVG. This will be used to enhance the access to scientific resources and information provided by RBVI. For example, we plan to implement a chromatogram viewer for the display of DNA sequence "traces" directly within a web-browser. This will directly benefit two collaborative projects within the RBVI, the Pharmacogenetics of Membrane Transporters (PMT) and BayGenomics, as well as be very useful to the general DNA sequencing community.