BioJS

BioJS provides JavaScript components that visualize biological data and enable programmatic construction of web-based bioinformatics visualizations.


Key Features:

  • JavaScript-based visualization: Creates dynamic, interactive visualizations of biological data using JavaScript components.
  • Community-driven standard specification: Adheres to a community-driven specification that defines component interfaces and behavior.
  • Component-based architecture: Offers a collection of reusable components for assembling visualizations of biological datasets.

Scientific Applications:

  • Genomic analysis: Provides visualization components applicable to genomic data interpretation and exploration.
  • Protein structure visualization: Provides components for rendering and exploring protein structural information.
  • Complex dataset visualization: Supports interactive visual representation of complex biological datasets to aid research interpretation.

Methodology:

Collaborative development of reusable components guided by a community-driven standard specification.

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Details

Tool Type:
command-line tool
Operating Systems:
Linux, Windows, Mac
Programming Languages:
JavaScript
Added:
8/3/2017
Last Updated:
11/25/2024

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Publications

Gómez J, García LJ, Salazar GA, Villaveces J, Gore S, García A, Martín MJ, Launay G, Alcántara R, del-Toro N, Dumousseau M, Orchard S, Velankar S, Hermjakob H, Zong C, Ping P, Corpas M, Jiménez RC. BioJS: an open source JavaScript framework for biological data visualization. Bioinformatics. 2013;29(8):1103-1104. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt100. PMID:23435069. PMCID:PMC3624812.

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