VarCopy: a Visual Exploratory Data Analysis Platform for Copy Number Variation Studies

摘要

The study of such a complex phenomenon as cancer, which depends on several but unexplored and unclear factors, needs new ways to visualize, analyze and combine different data both on species characteristics and genes function. To this respect, we propose a novel platform, named VarCopy, supporting visual Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) in the context of Copy Number Variation (CNV) data. The platform will be publicly available as a web application soon, and is, to our best knowledge, the first tool allowing visual, interactive exploration and analysis of the CNV landscape of multiple species, allowing the identification of new target genes that might be useful for biomedical research.