학술논문

Lexicon Visualization Library and JavaScript for Scientific Data Visualization
Document Type
Periodical
Source
Computing in Science & Engineering Comput. Sci. Eng. Computing in Science & Engineering. 20(1):50-65 Feb, 2018
Subject
Computing and Processing
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Libraries
Data visualization
Genomics
Proteins
Bioinformatics
Big Data
Visualization
Computer languages
Java
Scientific computing
JavaScript
ES6
genetics
medicine
data visualization
object-oriented programming
bioinformatics
ES5
Language
ISSN
1521-9615
1558-366X
Abstract
It’s becoming increasingly challenging to efficiently visualize and extract useful insight from complex and big data sets. JavaScript stands out as a suitable programming choice that offers mature libraries, easy implementation, and extensive customization, all of which stay in the shadow of new and rapid developments in the language. To illustrate the use of JavaScript in a scientific context, this article elaborates on Lexicon, a collection of JavaScript libraries for generating interactive visualizations in bioinformatics and other custom libraries.