Databases for genetic services: current usages and future directions
Journal of Medical Systems
Inside ODBC
A focus+context technique based on hyperbolic geometry for visualizing large hierarchies
CHI '95 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ODBC 3.5 Developer's Guide
Chromium: a stream-processing framework for interactive rendering on clusters
Proceedings of the 29th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
JDBC API Tutorial and Reference
JDBC API Tutorial and Reference
Combining Linking & Focusing Techniques for a Multiple Hierarchy Visualisation
IV '01 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information Visualisation
TreeJuxtaposer: scalable tree comparison using Focus+Context with guaranteed visibility
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Efficiently calculating inbreeding on large pedigrees databases
Information Systems
Visualising errors in animal pedigree genotype data
EuroVis'11 Proceedings of the 13th Eurographics / IEEE - VGTC conference on Visualization
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We describe the design and implementation of PViN (Pedigree Visualization and Navigation), a scalable and flexible software system that enables the visualization, analysis, and printing of hierarchical relations typically stored in relational databases. Although the concept of visualizing and printing pedigree databases is not new, we have developed a novel implementation based on modern approaches for several important reasons: (1) Our university's center of hereditary diseases has accumulated very large amounts of hereditary information from various populations for ongoing research projects, and has difficulty managing and effectively printing the associated pedigree trees with legacy FORTRAN software; (2) The size of some of these databases (over 40,000 entries covering seven generations) is too large for existing commercial pedigree software to handle; and (3) Our researchers and support staff need more effective ways to perform visual analysis tasks, such as the comparison of multiple pedigrees and the cross-referencing of individuals that appear in multiple families (through re-marriage.) The PViN system addresses these fundamental problems while also providing a number of additional features and functions, including: context-free drawing routines that enable rendering onto screen and printer contexts interchangeably; a generic framework that allows the system to interface with multiple databases and database servers; a multiple view user interface that provides side-by-side comparisons and "focus+context" rendering; and advanced node searching and cross-referencing capabilities.