Genome Visualisation and User Studies in
Biologist-Computer Interaction
Joanna Jakubowska
e-mail: asia@dcs.gla.ac.uk
o refereed publications:
VisGenome and Ensembl: Usability of Integrated Genome Maps
– J. Jakubowska, E. Hunt, J. McClure, M. Chalmers, M. McBride, and A. F.
Dominiczak – DILS’08 proceedings
– the paper is nominated for the Best Paper award.
CartoonPlus: A New Scaling Algorithm for Genomics Data
– J. Jakubowska, E. Hunt, and M. Chalmers – ICCS 2008
proceedings – LNCS, Springer.
VisGenome: visualization of single and comparative genome representations
– J. Jakubowska, E. Hunt, M. Chalmers, M. McBride, and A. F. Dominiczak
– 2007 – Bioinformatics
– vol. 23, no. 19.
Defining Mapping Mashups with BioXMash – E. Hunt, J.
Jakubowska, C. Boesinger, and M. Norrie – 2007 – Journal of Integrative
Bioinformatics – 4(3):64.
Genome Visualisation – J. Jakubowska – 2006
– HCI Engage,
Doctoral Consortium.
o other publications:
VisGenome with CartoonPlus: a New Scaling Algorithm for Genomics
Data – Jakubowska, E. Hunt, and M. Chalmers – DILS’08, poster/demo.
CartoonPlus: A new Scaling Algorithm for Genomics Data
– J. Jakubowska, E. Hunt, and M. Chalmers – Department of Computing
Science at the University of Glasgow – 2007 – Tech. Report:
TR-2007-259.
Usability of VisGenome and Ensembl – A User Study
– J. Jakubowska, E. Hunt, and M. Chalmers – Department of Computing
Science at the University of Glasgow – 2007 – Tech. Report:
TR-2007-244.
Granularity of genomics data in genome visualisation –
J. Jakubowska, E. Hunt, and M. Chalmers – Department of Computing Science
at the University of Glasgow – 2006 – Tech. Report: TR-2006-221.
VisGenome
– genome visualisation at different levels of detail – J.
Jakubowska, E. Hunt, M. Chalmers, and A. F. Dominiczak – 3rd
International Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences 2006
(DILS’06).
System level visualization of eQTLs and pQTLs – J.
Jakubowska, E. Hunt, M. Chalmers, D. Leader, M. McBride, and A. F. Dominiczak
– BioSysBio: Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Conference in
Edinburgh 14-15 July 2005 – BMC
Bioinformatics.
Migrating data integration agents for genomics – E.
Hunt, K. Renaud, R. Sinnott, and J. Jakubowska – 2005 – Workshop on
Ubiquitous Computing and e-Research in Edinburgh.

o presentations:
DILS’08
on 26th June 2008 – ![]()
ICCS’08
on 24th June 2008 – ![]()
SET
meeting on 14th of January 2008 – ![]()
GIST
meeting on 31st of May 2007 – ![]()
Napier University
on 4th of May 2007 – ![]()
BRC on 3rd
of November 2006 – ![]()
HCI Engage on 11th of September 2006 – ![]()
GIST
meeting on 1st of June 2006 – ![]()
ETH Zürich on
3rd of May 2006 – ![]()
SET
meeting on 25th of November 2005 – ![]()
o posters
o eQtls & pQTLs examples from the article:
Norbert Hubner, Caroline A. Wallace, Heike Zimdahl,
Enrico Petretto, Herbert Schultz, Fiona Maciver, Michael Mueller, Oliver
Hummel, Jan Monti, Vaclav Zidek, Alena Musilova, Vladimir Kren, Helen Causton,
Laurence Game, Gabriele Born, Sabine Schmidt, Anita Müller, Stuart A.
Cook, Theodore W. Kutz, John Whittaker, Michal Pravenec & Timothy J.
Aitman,
Nature Genetics 37, 243 – 253 (2005)
presented
in Der
Browser in 4 versions:
1st version (eQTLs and pQTLs are in
different columns)
2nd version (eQTLs and pQTLs are coloured
and located in the same column)
3rd version (video - with CGI script)
4th version (video - with fisheye effect)