Visualization of protein sequence features using JavaScript and SVG with pViz.js

摘要

pViz.js is a visualization library for displaying sequence features in a Web browser. By simply providing a and the locations of its features, this lightweight, yet JavaScript library renders an interactive view of the protein Interactive exploration of protein sequence features over the Web is common need in Bioinformatics. Although many Web sites developed viewers to display these features, their are usually focused on data from a specific source or use Some of these viewers can be adapted to fit other use cases are not designed to be reusable. pViz makes it easy to display as boxes aligned to a protein sequence with zooming functionality also includes predefined renderings for secondary structure and translational modifications. The library is designed to further this view. We demonstrate such applications of pViz using examples: a proteomic data visualization tool with an viewer for displaying features on protein structure, and a tool to alize the results of the variant_effect_predictor tool from Ensembl.