System and methods for navigating and visualizing multi-dimensional biological data
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1. A method for displaying and manipulating a large dataset to facilitate identification, correlations or other useful relationships among the data in the dataset, the method comprising the steps of:
- generating a planar view of a two-dimensional projection of the data in the dataset;
continuously zooming the planar view, to provide a zoomed-in or a zoomed out view of at least a portion of the data, wherein the continuous zooming feature facilitates a user'"'"'s ability to maintain reference; and
converting an abstraction of at least a portion of the data to a different level of abstraction during said continuously zooming step when a predetermined level of zooming-in has been reached, and converting the different level of abstraction back to the abstraction of the at least a portion of the data when a predetermined level of zooming-out has been reached.
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Abstract
Methods systems and computer readable media for manipulating and displaying sparse data contained within very large datasets. Particular applications includes those to proteomics and metabolomics. Navigation of the large data sets from a global perspective may be practically implemented, so that a user is not confined to a narrow slice of data at a time, thus providing context of the whole dataset while viewing data within the dataset.
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1. A method for displaying and manipulating a large dataset to facilitate identification, correlations or other useful relationships among the data in the dataset, the method comprising the steps of:
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generating a planar view of a two-dimensional projection of the data in the dataset;
continuously zooming the planar view, to provide a zoomed-in or a zoomed out view of at least a portion of the data, wherein the continuous zooming feature facilitates a user'"'"'s ability to maintain reference; and
converting an abstraction of at least a portion of the data to a different level of abstraction during said continuously zooming step when a predetermined level of zooming-in has been reached, and converting the different level of abstraction back to the abstraction of the at least a portion of the data when a predetermined level of zooming-out has been reached. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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16. A method for comparing multiple, large scale datasets, comprising the steps of
fitting equal scales and origins to views of each large scale dataset to be compared, so that a reference to a location on a view of one of the views points to the same corresponding location on all other views; -
overlaying said views on one display; and
visually representing data in each said view to visually distinguish from corresponding data in all other views. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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36. A system for displaying and manipulating data to facilitate identification, correlations or other useful relationships among the data, said system comprising:
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means for generating a planar view of a 2-D projection of the data, which is continuously zoomable and scrollable, means for reducing raw data to symbols representative of said raw data.
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37. A system for comparing multiple data sets, comprising
means for fitting a scale and origin of one data set view set onto views of all other data sets of the multiple data sets, to provide windows on all of the data sets pointing to homologous locations, means for color-coding said fitted data sets to visually distinguish said fitted data sets from each other; - and
means for overlaying the color-coded, fitted, multiple data set views on a single window.
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38. A computer readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for displaying and manipulating data to facilitate identification, correlations or other useful relationships among the data, wherein execution of one or more sequences of instructions by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the steps of:
generating a planar view of a 2-D projection of the data, which is continuously zoomable and scrollable.
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