dc.contributor.author | Vercruysse, Steven | |
dc.contributor.author | Venkatesan, Aravind | |
dc.contributor.author | Kuiper, Martin | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-09-21T11:55:19Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-03T10:33:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-09-21T11:55:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-12-03T10:33:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
dc.identifier.citation | BMC Bioinformatics 2012, 13 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2105 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2366659 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: More than one million terms from biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabularies are available
through the Ontology Lookup Service (OLS). Although OLS provides ample possibility for querying and browsing
terms, the visualization of parts of the ontology graphs is rather limited and inflexible.
Results: We created the OLSVis web application, a visualiser for browsing all ontologies available in the OLS
database. OLSVis shows customisable subgraphs of the OLS ontologies. Subgraphs are animated via a real-time
force-based layout algorithm which is fully interactive: each time the user makes a change, e.g. browsing to a new
term, hiding, adding, or dragging terms, the algorithm performs smooth and only essential reorganisations of the
graph. This assures an optimal viewing experience, because subsequent screen layouts are not grossly altered, and
users can easily navigate through the graph. URL: http://ols.wordvis.com
Conclusions: The OLSVis web application provides a user-friendly tool to visualise ontologies from the OLS
repository. It broadens the possibilities to investigate and select ontology subgraphs through a smooth visualisation
method.
Keywords: Bio-ontologies, Visualisation, Browsing, Web application | nb_NO |
dc.language.iso | eng | nb_NO |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | nb_NO |
dc.title | OLSVis: an animated, interactive visual browser for bio-ontologies | nb_NO |
dc.type | Journal article | nb_NO |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_GB |
dc.date.updated | 2015-09-21T11:55:19Z | |
dc.source.volume | 13 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | BMC Bioinformatics | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/1471-2105-13-116 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 946382 | |
dc.description.localcode | © 2012 Vercruysse et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | nb_NO |