With great power comes great responsibility. 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. Human factors such as interaction, cognition, perception play central role in the final outcome of the analytics and decision making process.

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.