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Interactive visualization of biological data on the web.

Web-based biology-related visualization tools are often scattered across the internet and difficult to discover. They may be found on GitHub, Twitter, or linked from scientific papers. These tools can be very useful to scientists looking to visualize biological data in the context of diseased or healthy humans or model organisms.

Cancer

COSMIC Cancer Browser

Browse COSMIC data by tissue type and histology.

UCSC Xena

Explore functional genomic data sets for correlations between genomic and/or phenotypic variables.

cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics

Visualization, analysis and download of large-scale cancer genomics data sets.

iCoMut Beta for FireBrowse

Interactive exploration of mutation rates, mutation signatures, clinical data, gene mutations.

MAGI

Visualization and collaborative annotation of genomic aberrations.

ExploSig

Interactive visualization of mutational signatures and clinical data.

Race, Gender, and Age in TCGA

An interactive visualization of patient gender, race, and age in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) dataset.

OASISPRO

Omics analysis tool for clinical phenotype prediction.

Signal

Mutational signatures extracted from cancer samples and isogenic cell-based experiments.

Oncoscape

An integrated suite of analysis tools for users to explore hypotheses related to molecular and clinical data.

Genomics

UCSC Genome Browser

Interactively visualize genomic data.

Ensembl

A genome browser for vertebrate genomes that supports research in comparative genomics, evolution, sequence variation and transcriptional regulation.

IMP: Integrative Multi-species Prediction

Analyze your experimental results in the functional context of gene-gene networks from multiple organisms.

PLACNETw

A graph-based tool for reconstruction of plasmids from next generation sequence pair-end datasets.

PhyD3

A phylogenetic tree viewer.

Archaeopteryx

Visualization, analysis, and editing of phylogenetic trees.

GeneMANIA

Helps predict the function of genes and gene sets.

Mutaframe

Visualize variants of the human genome.

Coessentiality

A genome-wide almanac of co-essential modules assigns function to uncharacterized genes.

Gosling

A grammar-based toolkit for scalable and interactive genomics data visualization.

gbatlas

Interactive viewer for GenBank/GenPept records: linear and circular feature maps, CDS translation, ORF and restriction-site layers, entirely in the browser.

3D Genomics

HiGlass

A tool for exploring genomic contact matrices and tracks.

HiPiler

A tool for visually exploring and aggregating reoccurring patterns (like loops, TADs, etc.) in Hi-C maps.

Delta

An integrative analysis and visualization platform for 3D genome.

Juicebox

Visualization for Hi-C data.

TADkit

3D genome browser and TADbit front-end.

Metagenomics

Metaviz

Interactive statistical and visual analysis of metagenomic data.

Malaria Cell Atlas

Explore how genes are expressed across more than 500 individual Plasmodium parasites.

Epigenomics

Epiviz

Interactive visual analytics for functional genomics data.

GIVe

Epigenome and genome interaction.

WashU Epigenome Browser

Displays many sequencing-based data sets across all or part of the genome, on specific gene sets or pathways, and in the context of their metadata.

Clustergrammer CCLE Explorer

Browse relative mRNA expression data for cancer cell lines from the Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia (CCLE) by tissue of origin using Clustergrammer.

Peax

Interactive visual pattern exploration in epigenomic data using unsupervised deep representation learning.

Proteomics

COSMIC-3D

A platform for understanding cancer mutations in the context of 3D protein structure.

EzMol

Visualisation and image production of protein and nucleic acid structures.

Genomics 2 Proteins portal

A platform for connecting genomic data to protein sequence and protein structure.

LiteMol

Visualization of large-scale

pdb2print

Convert a PDB structure into a 3D-printable 3MF file, with one object per chain, magnet pockets and custom display stands.

macromolecular structure data.

Spatial transcriptomics

Vitessce

Visual integration tool for exploration of spatial single-cell experiment data.

Brain mRNA Isoform Atlas

Visualize cell type signatures of alternative splicing in postnatal development.

AlzMap

Spatial transcriptomics in Alzheimer's disease.

Loom Viewer

Tool for sharing, browsing and visualizing single-cell data stored in the Loom file format.

TissUUmaps

Interactive visualization of large-scale spatial gene expression and tissue morphology data.

Giotto Viewer

A web-based visualization package for spatial transcriptomic data.

(Non-spatial) Transcriptomics

cellxgene

An interactive explorer for single-cell transcriptomics data.

UCSC Cell Browser

An interactive viewer for single-cell expression.

L1000FWD

Large-scale visualization of drug-induced transcriptomic signatures.

ASAP

A collaborative portal to analyze single-cell transcriptomics data.

SCope

A visualization tool for large-scale scRNA-seq datasets.

Mouse Brain Atlas

Atlas of cell types from the Linnarsson Lab.

Broad Institute Single Cell Portal

Reducing barriers and accelerating single-cell research.

Allen Brain Map - Transcriptomics Explorer

Atlas of human and mouse transcriptomic cell types.

Single Cell VR

Interactive visualization of single-cell data in virtual reality.

SPRING

A tool for uncovering high-dimensional structure in single-cell gene expression data.

START

Shiny Transcriptome Analysis Resource Tool allows users to visualize RNA-seq data starting with count data.

iSEE

The Interactive SummarizedExperiment Explorer.

TISCH

Tumor Immune Single-cell Hub (TISCH) is a scRNA-seq database focusing on tumor microenvironment.

Gene expression matrices

EBI Single Cell Expression Atlas

Single cell gene expression across species.

MORPHEUS

Versatile matrix visualization and analysis software.

Clustergrammer

Visualize high-dimensional data as interactive hierarchically clustered heatmaps.

Microscopy

IONpath MIBItracker

Slide and image data.

Avivator

A lightweight "batteries-included" WebGL viewer for remote imaging data in Bio-Formats Zarr or OME-TIFF format.

Connectomics

neuroglancer

Tool for visualization of highly detailed maps of neuronal connectivity in the fly brain.

Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas

A high-resolution map of neural connections in the mouse brain.

FlyWire

A human-AI collaboration to map the fly connectome.

Metabolomics

Metaspace

A platform for metabolite annotation of imaging mass spectrometry data.

Mass Spectrometry

Cytosplore

Cytosplore is an interactive visual analysis system for the analysis of mass cytometry data.

Populations

Nextstrain

Real-time tracking of virus evolution.

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Visualizations of disease worldwide.

Lifespans

Visualization of the lifespans of multiple species.

Life Expectancy

Life expectancies around the world, 1960 to 2009.

Medicine

Snake Oil Supplements

Scientific evidence for popular health supplements.

SieveSifter

Tool for visualizing the sieve analyses of HIV-1 vaccine efficacy trials.