title: Semantic Body Browser: graphical exploration of an organism and spatially resolved expression data visualization.
abstract: Advancing technologies generate large amounts of molecular and phenotypic data on cells, tissues and organisms, leading to an ever-growing detail and complexity while information retrieval and analysis becomes increasingly time-consuming. The Semantic Body Browser is a web application for intuitively exploring the body of an organism from the organ to the subcellular level and visualising expression profiles by means of semantically annotated anatomical illustrations. It is used to comprehend biological and medical data related to the different body structures while relying on the strong pattern recognition capabilities of human users.
  
  
  METHODS
  The Semantic Body Browser is a JavaScript web application that is freely available at http://sbb.cellfinder.org. The source code is provided on https://github.com/flekschas/sbb.
authors.affiliation: Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany and Seoul National University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Fritz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lekschas
authors.affiliation: Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany and Seoul National University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Harald
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stachelscheid
authors.affiliation: Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany and Seoul National University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seltmann
authors.affiliation: Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany and Seoul National University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, 13353 Berlin, Germany and Seoul National University, College of Veterinary Medicine and Research Institute for Veterinary Science, Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kurtz
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D015870:Gene Expression; D018594:Human Body; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D012660:Semantics; D012984:Software