Metaviz

Large studies profiling microbial communities and their association with healthy
or disease phenotypes are now commonplace. Processed data from many of these
studies are publicly available but significant effort is required for users to
effectively organize, explore and integrate it, limiting the utility of these
rich data resources. Effective integrative and interactive visual and statistical
tools to analyze many metagenomic samples can greatly increase the value of these
data for researchers. We present Metaviz, a tool for interactive exploratory data
analysis of annotated microbiome taxonomic community profiles derived from marker
gene or whole metagenome shotgun sequencing. Metaviz is uniquely designed to
address the challenge of browsing the hierarchical structure of metagenomic data
features while rendering visualizations of data values that are dynamically
updated in response to user navigation. We use Metaviz to provide the UMD
Metagenome Browser web service, allowing users to browse and explore data for
more than 7000 microbiomes from published studies. Users can also deploy Metaviz
as a web service, or use it to analyze data through the metavizr package to
interoperate with state-of-the-art analysis tools available through Bioconductor.
Metaviz is free and open source with the code, documentation and tutorials
publicly accessible.

Metaviz: interactive statistical and visual analysis of metagenomic data.

Metaviz is a tool to visualize and investigate annotated metagenomic data.

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