A METHOD FOR ORGANIZING DATA AND GENERATING IMAGES OF REFERENCE BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES AND RELATED MATERIALS AND THE IMAGES AND MATERIALS SO GENERATED

摘要

The invention is a method for organizing biomedical resource information and generating images and text by depicting, describing and relating biological structures through the association of digital graph templates and reference ontologies, the computer programmes and databases for performing the method and the images and text so generated. The method consists of applying constraints to ensure the consistent layout of treemaps for different derivative subgraphs extracted from the same reference ontology graph. The constraints are applied through the use of graph templates associated with nodes in a graph-based relationship with other nodes so as to control the relative location, size and orientation of tiles in subgraphs of the ontological reference graphs and to generate consistent displays of visual depictions of biological structures at all scales of size and complexity. A result of the performance of the invention is the production of more meaningful and usable depictions of treemaps of complex biological structures and their associated biomedical resource semantic metadata.