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Hiplot: a comprehensive and easy-to-use web service for boosting publication-ready biomedical data visualization.
Jianfeng Li1,2, Benben Miao3, Shixiang Wang4
1Shanghai Institute of Hematology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Genomics, National Research Center for Translational Medicine at Shanghai, Ruijin Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Briefings in Bioinformatics
|July 5, 2022
Summary
Hiplot is a free web service offering over 240 biomedical data visualization functions for life scientists. It simplifies complex data analysis, providing publication-ready graphics and improving research efficiency.
Area of Science:
- Biomedical Data Science
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Biology
Background:
- Complex biomedical data from clinical, omics, and mechanism-based experiments require advanced data mining.
- Existing tools lack user-friendly, comprehensive visualization for publication-ready graphics.
- There is a need for accessible web services for biomedical data visualization.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce Hiplot, a community-driven web service for comprehensive biomedical data visualization.
- To provide an easy-to-use platform for researchers to perform specialized visualization tasks.
- To offer high-quality, scalable, and updatable graphics for life sciences and biomedical fields.
Main Methods:
- Development of a modern web service (Hiplot) with over 240 data visualization functions.
- Implementation of client-/server-side advantages: spreadsheet import, command-line controller (Hctl), plugin system.
- Utilizing demo/real data sets and benchmark tests for performance evaluation.
Main Results:
- Hiplot covers diverse visualization needs including statistics, multi-omics, regression, clustering, and survival analysis.
- The service offers features for efficient data handling, plugin development, and real-time updates.
- Benchmark tests demonstrated the website's performance on various biomedical data analyses.
Conclusions:
- Hiplot provides a valuable, free resource for life and data sciences researchers.
- The web service democratizes complex data visualization, previously limited to experts.
- Hiplot enhances research efficiency and facilitates the creation of publication-ready graphics.
