Phinch

Phinch visualizes large-scale environmental sequencing datasets to enable exploratory analysis of biodiversity and biogeographic patterns from microbiome and metagenome studies.

Key Features:

• Interactive visualization: Provides interactive visualizations for exploratory analysis of high-throughput -Omic datasets.
• Standard file format compatibility: Accepts standard computational pipeline output file formats for integration with microbial ecology pipelines.
• Sequencing technology compatibility: Supports data generated by 454 and Illumina sequencing platforms.
• HTML5-based scalability: Implements HTML5-based visualization techniques to scale visual representations for large datasets.
• Visualization-driven discovery: Enables exploration of biodiversity and biogeographic patterns among bacteria, archaea, and microscopic eukaryotes, including understudied or uncultured taxa.

Scientific Applications:

• Environmental sequencing analysis: Exploratory analysis of environmental sequencing data to characterize biodiversity and biogeography.
• Microbiome and metagenome studies: Visual analysis of microbiome and metagenome datasets generated on 454 and Illumina platforms.
• Microbial ecology and uncultured taxa investigation: Support for microbial ecology investigations, including detection and exploration of understudied or uncultured bacterial, archaeal, and microscopic eukaryote taxa.

Methodology:

Transforms raw sequencing and standard computational pipeline outputs into interactive, HTML5-based visual representations.