A graphics toolkit for visualizing genome data

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Powerful ‘grammar’ allows geneticists to display their data in interactive and scalable illustrations.

Illustration of an eye with the iris filled with coloured segments and a colour picker and mouse arrow.

Illustration: The Project Twins

The genomics world has no shortage of visualization tools. But as new methods and data types emerge, existing techniques can struggle to cope. Now, a tool known as Gosling allows bioinformaticians to build apps that can display genomic information with the same level of flexibility that developers have come to expect from other graphics programming tools.

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Nature 608, 636-637 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02191-z

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