Gosling

Gosling provides a grammar-based framework for interactive, scalable visualization of genomics data to support exploration and interpretation of diverse and large genomic datasets.

Key Features:

• Grammar-based visualization: A declarative grammar system to specify interactive, multi-scale genomics visualizations.
• Scalable interactive rendering: Gosling.js implements scalable, interactive rendering in JavaScript to visualize large volumes of genomic data.
• Multi-scale visualization: Supports comprehensive multi-scale representations to inspect genomic signals and features across resolutions.
• Support for diverse data types and analysis tasks: Enables visualization of diverse genomics data types and multiple analysis tasks within a unified specification.
• Integration with web-based genomics platforms: Built on an existing web-based genomics visualization platform to handle common genomic data formats.
• Expressive customization: A flexible grammar that enables creation of novel and tailored visualization designs for specific analytical needs.

Scientific Applications:

• Genomic data exploration: Inspect and explore large, complex genomic datasets interactively across scales.
• Visualization design and evaluation: Develop and evaluate novel genomics visualization layouts and representations for analytical workflows.
• Multi-scale feature analysis: Examine genomic signals and features at multiple resolutions to support cross-scale analyses.

Methodology:

Visualization specifications are written using a declarative grammar; rendering is performed by the Gosling.js JavaScript toolkit; the system integrates with a web-based genomics visualization platform to parse common genomic data formats and produce interactive, scalable, multi-scale visualizations.