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Omix – A Visualization Tool for Metabolic Networks with Highest Usability and Customizability in Focus
Author(s) -
Droste Peter,
Nöh Katharina,
Wiechert Wolfgang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chemie ingenieur technik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1522-2640
pISSN - 0009-286X
DOI - 10.1002/cite.201200234
Subject(s) - visualization , computer science , scripting language , usability , human–computer interaction , domain (mathematical analysis) , data visualization , information visualization , software visualization , interface (matter) , graph drawing , focus (optics) , user interface , software , software engineering , interactive visualization , data science , programming language , software system , data mining , component based software engineering , mathematical analysis , physics , mathematics , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , optics
Visualization has become indispensable in the analysis and interpretation of data from experiment and simulation. To adequately represent the diversity of studied phenomena, it is necessary to support researchers with tools that are easy to use and allow effective data visualization with special regard to individual requirements. This contribution presents the visualization tool Omix, an editor for metabolic network diagrams and a customizable visualization framework. As an outstanding feature, data visualization is script‐based. The dedicated new scripting language OVL (Omix Visualization Language) enables the user to freely design the manner data is visualized in the network. An intuitive user interface, several newly developed, domain‐specific drawing automatisms as well as visualization concepts make the software Omix a mature computational tool supporting the specific requirements of researchers from systems biology and life science domains as will be demonstrated on several application examples.