Seeing is Believing :The Scientist [2006-04-01]


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	BY ANNE HARDING

Seeing is Believing These data visualization approaches involve finding ways to express massive quantities of information so that humans can comprehend them and spot patterns that provide information about the underlying system. Many projects are generating this escalating amount of data, including whole genomes, the human interactome (a map of every possible protein-protein interaction that could eventually contain