Whiteboard: a framework for the programmatic visualization of complex biological analyses

Görel Sundström; Neda Zamani; Manfred G Grabherr; Evan Mauceli

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv078

Whiteboard: a framework for the programmatic visualization of complex biological analyses

Bioinformatics. 2015 Jun 15;31(12):2054-5. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv078. Epub 2015 Feb 5.

Authors

Görel Sundström¹, Neda Zamani², Manfred G Grabherr¹, Evan Mauceli¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences, Uppsala University, 75123 Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden and Parabase Genomics, 27 Drydock Avenue, Boston MA 02210, USA.
² Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences, Uppsala University, 75123 Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden and Parabase Genomics, 27 Drydock Avenue, Boston MA 02210, USA Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences, Uppsala University, 75123 Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Plant Physiology, Umeå University, 901 87 Umeå, Sweden and Parabase Genomics, 27 Drydock Avenue, Boston MA 02210, USA.

PMID: 25661541
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv078

Abstract

Whiteboard is a class library implemented in C++ that enables visualization to be tightly coupled with computation when analyzing large and complex datasets.

Availability and implementation: the C++ source code, coding samples and documentation are freely available under the Lesser General Public License from http://whiteboard-class.sourceforge.net/.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Computational Biology / methods*
Computer Graphics*
Databases, Factual
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval
Programming Languages*
Software*