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Visual Exploration across Biomedical Databases
March/April 2011 (vol. 8 no. 2)
pp. 536-550
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Michael D. Lieberman, Sima Taheri, Huimin Guo, Fatemeh Mirrashed, Inbal Yahav, Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, "Visual Exploration across Biomedical Databases," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 536-550, March/April, 2011.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/TCBB.2010.1,
author = {Michael D. Lieberman and Sima Taheri and Huimin Guo and Fatemeh Mirrashed and Inbal Yahav and Aleks Aris and Ben Shneiderman},
title = {Visual Exploration across Biomedical Databases},
journal ={IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics},
volume = {8},
number = {2},
issn = {1545-5963},
year = {2011},
pages = {536-550},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TCBB.2010.1},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
TI - Visual Exploration across Biomedical Databases
IS - 2
SN - 1545-5963
SP536
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EPD - 536-550
A1 - Michael D. Lieberman,
A1 - Sima Taheri,
A1 - Huimin Guo,
A1 - Fatemeh Mirrashed,
A1 - Inbal Yahav,
A1 - Aleks Aris,
A1 - Ben Shneiderman,
PY - 2011
KW - Data exploration and discovery
KW - bioinformatics
KW - information visualization.
VL - 8
JA - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
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Michael D. Lieberman, University of Maryland, College Park
Sima Taheri, University of Maryland, College Park
Huimin Guo, University of Maryland, College Park
Fatemeh Mirrashed, University of Maryland, College Park
Inbal Yahav, University of Maryland, College Park
Aleks Aris, University of Maryland, College Park
Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland, College Park
Though biomedical research often draws on knowledge from a wide variety of fields, few visualization methods for biomedical data incorporate meaningful cross-database exploration. A new approach is offered for visualizing and exploring a query-based subset of multiple heterogeneous biomedical databases. Databases are modeled as an entity-relation graph containing nodes (database records) and links (relationships between records). Users specify a keyword search string to retrieve an initial set of nodes, and then explore intra- and interdatabase links. Results are visualized with user-defined semantic substrates to take advantage of the rich set of attributes usually present in biomedical data. Comments from domain experts indicate that this visualization method is potentially advantageous for biomedical knowledge exploration.

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Index Terms:
Data exploration and discovery, bioinformatics, information visualization.
Citation:
Michael D. Lieberman, Sima Taheri, Huimin Guo, Fatemeh Mirrashed, Inbal Yahav, Aleks Aris, Ben Shneiderman, "Visual Exploration across Biomedical Databases," IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 536-550, March-April 2011, doi:10.1109/TCBB.2010.1
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