title: DNAism: exploring genomic datasets on the web with Horizon Charts.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Computational biologists daily face the need to explore massive amounts of genomic data. New visualization techniques can help researchers navigate and understand these big data. Horizon Charts are a relatively new visualization method that, under the right circumstances, maximizes data density without losing graphical perception.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Horizon Charts have been successfully applied to understand multi-metric time series data. We have adapted an existing JavaScript library (Cubism) that implements Horizon Charts for the time series domain so that it works effectively with genomic datasets. We call this new library DNAism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Horizon Charts can be an effective visual tool to explore complex and large genomic datasets. Researchers can use our library to leverage these techniques to extract additional insights from their own datasets.
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, USA. driodeiros@gmail.com.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rio Deiros
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, USA. deiros@bcm.edu.|Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, USA. deiros@bcm.edu.
authors.forename: Richard A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Gibbs
authors.affiliation: Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, USA. deiros@bcm.edu.|Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, USA. deiros@bcm.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods; D003196:Computer Graphics; D066264:Datasets as Topic; D015723:Gene Library; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software
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