Where do proteins hang out in a cell? Who do they associate with and what do they do? You can answer these and other questions with Organelle View, a visuospatial translation of structured biological information.
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The goal of Organelle View is to develop visual translations of biological databases so that human users can creatively interact with and apply biological information in ways that seek to maintain a link to the organism and its processes.
Future directions include animated cellular cycles, additional organisms, and network connectivity among different databases.
Organelle View and and its parent database Organelle DB recently appeared in Science Magazine’s NetWatch section (Sept 29, 2006).
Organelle View is an ongoing collaboration between nformation design (principals: Chris Landau and Jamie Cope), current A&D grad student Gabriel Harp, and the Kumar Lab at the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute. The project was supported initially through a GROCS grant which provided the space and resources to launch the process.
Future directions include animated cellular cycles, additional organisms, and network connectivity among different databases.
http://organelledb.lsi.umich.edu/
