title: BicOverlapper: a tool for bicluster visualization.
abstract: BicOverlapper is a tool to visualize biclusters from gene-expression matrices in a way that helps to compare biclustering methods, to unravel trends and to highlight relevant genes and conditions. A visual approach can complement biological and statistical analysis and reduce the time spent by specialists interpreting the results of biclustering algorithms. The technique is based on a force-directed graph where biclusters are represented as flexible overlapped groups of genes and conditions.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The BicOverlapper software and supplementary material are available at http://vis.usal.es/bicoverlapper
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Informática y Automática, Pz. de Los Caídos S/N, 37008 Salamanca, Spain. rodri@usal.es
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Santamaría
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Therón
authors.forename: Luis
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Quintales
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003626:Data Display; D008954:Models, Biological; D005810:Multigene Family / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface