Dear friends,

The IIC Colloquium spring series begins next Wednesday.

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details.

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We hope you'll join us.

Pavlos Protopapas

Senior Scientist, IIC

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Tamara Munzner, University of British Columbia

IIC Colloquium - Visualization and Biology: Fertile Ground for Collaboration

Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Time: 4:00 p.m., refreshments at 3:30 p.m.
Location: 60 Oxford Street, Room 330

Abstract
This colloquium will focus on how visualization researchers and domain scientists can meet their goals through collaboration. Munzner will present two projects motivated by problems from biology, showing how visualization can dramatically speed up the workflow of scientific analysis. Cerebral, a system created in collaboration with immunologists, allows exploration of microarray data from multiple experiments in the context of biomolecular interaction networks. The Tree Juxtaposer system, created in collaboration with evolutionary biologists, supports visual comparison between large phylogenetic trees.