Bio-Mixer is a web-based environment that supports the flexible exploration of biomedical ontologies. The concepts in the ontologies and their mappings can be explored in different views such as graph views, lists and timeline views. Drag-and-drop interaction can be used to show items and collections in different views, to create filtered views and to synchronize selections. Bio-Mixer enhances drag and drop with a new drop target highlighting and preview approach to make working with multiple collections and views easy. Bio-Mixer also provides support for ontology annotation and workspace sharing between collaborators.

Primary researcher: Lars Grammel

Partners: National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO)

FlexViz is a graph based visualization tool written in Adobe Flex. It allows users to browse a single ontology where the concepts are represented by nodes and the relationships between concepts (e.g. “is_a”, “part-of”) are represented as arcs. It has support for node and arc type filtering, built-in searching, many different graph layouts, zooming, and much more.

Primary developer: Chris Callendar

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