I often screen papers for my reading list based on their illustration appeal. I know this may be bit strange for the people who judge the papers simply based on their abstracts or conclusion section. But trust me it works because I know what I am looking for. I always avoid the sleep inducing papers full of creepy tables and bar graphs, in fact so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness.

One of my favorite quote from movie Spider-Man which was sourced by Stan Lee, famous American writer and editor. After working with visual analytics for three years I realized that this quote is utterly correct for visual analytics. Visual analytics is a new exploratory paradigm which combines visualization, human factors and data analysis.

Information visualization is in the core of bioinformatics, and over the time variety of interesting information visualization approaches have been developed to visualize the different type of biological information. This post is specifically targeted on circular/radial visualization in biological domain.