What are some of the most difficult visualization challenges bioinformaticians face today? Which 3D visualization tools do folks spend the most hours using? Which tools do you wish existed? Is it visually inspecting protein structures / PDBs in a tool like iview or jmol for homology detection or protein/ligand binding a common or important task? Do folks here spend time viewing de novo assembly graphs in a tool like Bandage? What other use cases might I be missing?
Background: I am a CS Grad Student with experience in augmented reality development for HoloLens and would like to develop some open source bioinformatics visualizations tools as part of my studies. Any ideas/suggestions/pain points you can share would be much appreciated. I am thinking that being able to visualize a protein as a hologram and collaborate on it together with colleagues could be interesting, however I could really use some more help from the professionals here on use cases (I'm not really sure what "collaboration" would even mean - maybe picking up a complementary ligand hologram and checking fit?). Thanks!
Joe
Alex - When you say "There are tools to do explore these datasets on 2D computer screens" - what type of tools could I look at as a reference? Thanks in advance
Tools might include WashU, UCSC, and Hi-C genome browsers, which use a 2D stack of tracks to visualize signal.