title: BirdsEyeView (BEV): graphical overviews of experimental data.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Analyzing global experimental data can be tedious and time-consuming. Thus, helping biologists see results as quickly and easily as possible can facilitate biological research, and is the purpose of the software we describe.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present BirdsEyeView, a software system for visualizing experimental transcriptomic data using different views that users can switch among and compare. BirdsEyeView graphically maps data to three views: Cellular Map (currently a plant cell), Pathway Tree with dynamic mapping, and Gene Ontology http://www.geneontology.org Biological Processes and Molecular Functions. By displaying color-coded values for transcript levels across different views, BirdsEyeView can assist users in developing hypotheses about their experiment results.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  BirdsEyeView is a software system available as a Java Webstart package for visualizing transcriptomic data in the context of different biological views to assist biologists in investigating experimental results. BirdsEyeView can be obtained from http://metnetdb.org/MetNet_BirdsEyeView.htm.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA.
authors.forename: Lifeng
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Berleant
authors.forename: Yi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ling
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Diane
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Eve Syrkin
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Wurtele
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D012984:Software; D059467:Transcriptome; D014584:User-Computer Interface