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Chapter 22
Visualization in Biology and Medicine
Heike Leitte and Miriah Meyer
Abstract Basic biological research spans a huge range of scales, from studying the
genome up to studying populations of people. Biological data is just as expansive.
Advances in measuring devices and the public dissemination of large amounts of
data has fundamentally changed the way that biologists conduct research and make
scientific discoveries. Access to this data has made visualization a key component in
almost every biological discovery workflow. In this chapter we focus on visualiza-
tion in just a few areas of biology and highlight the challenges inherent within each.
We present case studies from our own work to illustrate the impact that thought-
fully designed visualization systems can have on complex biological problems and
highlight challenges for visualization research in these areas.
22.1 From Genomes to Cells: Visualization in Biology
Basic biological research spans a huge range of scales, from studying the genome
up to studying populations of people. Biological data is just as expansive. Advances
in measuring devices and the public dissemination of large amounts of data has
fundamentally changed the way that biologists conduct research and make scientific
discoveries. Access to this data has made visualization a key component in almost
every biological discovery workflow.
In this section we focus on visualization in just a few areas of biology and high-
light the challenges inherent within each. We present case studies from our own work
to illustrate the impact that thoughtfully designed visualization systems can have on
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Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR),
Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 368,
69120 Heidelberg, Germany
e-mail: heike.leitte@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
M. Meyer
School of Computing, University of Utah, 72 S. Central Campus Dr,
Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
e-mail: miriah@cs.utah.edu
H. Leitte
 
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