Method and user interface for interactive visualization and analysis of microarray data and other data, including genetic, biochemical, and chemical data

摘要

An interactive user interface that allows a user to display microarray data, and other data, including genetic, biochemical, and chemical data, in various ways to facilitate human analysis of the displayed data within the context of the genetic, biochemical, chemical, or other experiments from which the data is obtained. The interactive user interface displays processed microarray data as a color-coded, two-dimensional visual array. A user may selectively display textual and numerical annotations for the data on a row basis, a column basis, and on a cell basis. The user interface provides a user with the ability to rank and sort data on a row basis, as well as the ability to partition columns into meaningful groups. The interactive user interface provides for cropping displayed data to focus on data considered to be more significant within the context of a particular analysis. The interactive user interface also allows the color-coded display to be scaled over all display data, or individually scaled on a per-row basis. The interactive user interface allows a researcher to modify ranking, partitioning, scaling, and other parameters of the display in real time, in order to visually explore and navigate various different relationships and correlations between individual data array.