Semantic Body Browser

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Graphical exploration of an organism and spatially resolved expression data visualisation

Harald Stachelscheid
Stefanie Seltmann
Andreas Kurtz

The Semantic Body Browser is a web application for intuitively exploring the body of an organism from the organ to the subcellular level and visualising expression profiles by means of semantically annotated anatomical illustrations. It is used to comprehend biological and medical data related to the different body structures while relying on the strong pattern recognition capabilities of human users.

Main web applicationsbb.cellfinder.org

Project websitesemantic-body-browser.lekschas.de

Source codegithub.com/flekschas/sbb and github.com/flekschas/sbi

PublicationLekschas et al. (2015) Semantic Body Browser: Graphical exploration of an organism and spatially resolved expression data visualisation. Bioinformatics, Volume 31, Issue 5, 1 March 2015, Pages 794–796.

Release Date:
January, 2015
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Techniques:
2D, Spatial representation
Software:
Web based
Technology:
JavaScript, SVG, PHP, SQL
Platform:
Linux, Mac OSX, Windows
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Project development

Institution: Charité University Hospital Berlin

The Semantic Body Browser is implemented in JavaScript and SVG and backed by the CellFinder database. The source code is available on GitHub. The anatomical images are released under a permissive license on a separate GitHub repository as well.