TY - JOUR
T1 - CoVE: A Colony Visualization System for Animal Pedigrees
AU - Cannon, Brady
AU - Hiremath, Minoti
AU - Jorcyk, Cheryl
AU - Joshi, Alark
PY - 2014/1/1
Y1 - 2014/1/1
N2 - CoVE is a novel, scalable, interactive tool that can be used to visualize and manage large colonies of laboratory animals. Effective management of large colonies of with multiple individual attributes and complicated breeding schemes represents a significant data management challenge in the biological sciences. Currently available software either provides databases for record keeping or generates basic pedigrees but not both. Thus, there is a pressing need for an integrated colony management system that provides a repository for the data and addresses the visualization challenge presented by complex genealogical data. We present CoVE , a colony visualization tool that provides an overview of the entire colony, clusters individuals based on Gender, Litter or Genotype, and provides an individual view of any animal for detailed examination. We demonstrate that CoVE provides an efficient way to manage, generate and view complex pedigree of real world genealogical data from animal colonies, annotated with details of individual attributes. It enables interactive tracing of lineages and identification of censored subjects in tumor studies.
AB - CoVE is a novel, scalable, interactive tool that can be used to visualize and manage large colonies of laboratory animals. Effective management of large colonies of with multiple individual attributes and complicated breeding schemes represents a significant data management challenge in the biological sciences. Currently available software either provides databases for record keeping or generates basic pedigrees but not both. Thus, there is a pressing need for an integrated colony management system that provides a repository for the data and addresses the visualization challenge presented by complex genealogical data. We present CoVE , a colony visualization tool that provides an overview of the entire colony, clusters individuals based on Gender, Litter or Genotype, and provides an individual view of any animal for detailed examination. We demonstrate that CoVE provides an efficient way to manage, generate and view complex pedigree of real world genealogical data from animal colonies, annotated with details of individual attributes. It enables interactive tracing of lineages and identification of censored subjects in tumor studies.
KW - animal colony management
KW - genealogy visualization
KW - interactive visualization
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/bio_facpubs/436
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2636240.2636850
U2 - 10.1145/2636240.2636850
DO - 10.1145/2636240.2636850
M3 - Article
JO - History Faculty Publications and Presentations
JF - History Faculty Publications and Presentations
ER -