Vesper: Visualising species archives
Journal Article
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2014)
Vesper: Visualising species archives. Ecological Informatics, 24, 132-147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.08.004
Vesper (Visual Exploration of SPEcies-referenced Repositories) is a tool that visualises Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) datasets, and is aimed at reducing the amount of time and ...
VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees
Journal Article
Paterson, T., Graham, M., Kennedy, J., & Law, A. (2012)
VIPER: a visualisation tool for exploring inheritance inconsistencies in genotyped pedigrees. BMC Bioinformatics, 13/8, https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-S8-S5
Pedigree genotype datasets are used for analysing genetic inheritance and to map genetic markers and traits. Such datasets consist of hundreds of related animals genotyped for...
A comparison of techniques for name matching
Journal Article
Peng, T., Li, L., & Kennedy, J. (2012)
A comparison of techniques for name matching. GSTF journal on computing, 2,
Information explosion is a problem for everyone nowadays. It is a great challenge to all kinds of businesses to maintain high quality of data in their information applications...
A standard data model representation for taxonomic information.
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Kennedy, J., Hyam, R., Kukla, R., & Paterson, T. (2006)
A standard data model representation for taxonomic information. OMICS, 10, 220-230. doi:10.1089/omi.2006.10.220
The names used by biologists to label the observations they make are imprecise. This is an issue as workers increasingly seek to exploit data gathered from multiple, unrelated...
Time-series Explorer: An Animated Information Visualisation for Microarray Time-course Data
Journal Article
Craig, P., Kennedy, J., & Cumming, A. (2005)
Time-series Explorer: An Animated Information Visualisation for Microarray Time-course Data. BMC Bioinformatics, 6(Suppl 3), P8. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-6-S3-P8
Microarray technologies are a relatively new development that allow biologists to monitor the activity of thousands of genes (normally around 8,000) in parallel across multipl...
The Prometheus Description Model: an examination of the taxonomic description-building process and its representation
Journal Article
Pullan, M. R., Armstrong, K. E., Paterson, T., Cannon, A., Kennedy, J. B., Watson, M. F., …Raguenaud, C. (2005)
The Prometheus Description Model: an examination of the taxonomic description-building process and its representation. Taxon, 54(3), 751-765. https://doi.org/10.2307/25065431
A model for representing taxonomic descriptive data is presented. The model has been developed in response to the growing requirement for the global exchange of descriptive da...
Extending taxonomic visualisation to incorporate synonymy and structural markers.
Journal Article
Graham, M., & Kennedy, J. (2005)
Extending taxonomic visualisation to incorporate synonymy and structural markers. Information Visualization, 4, 206-223. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500096
The visualisation of taxonomic hierarchies has evolved from indented lists of names to techniques that can display thousands of nodes and onto hundreds of thousands of nodes o...
Animated interval scatter-plot views for the exploratory analysis of large scale microarray time-course data.
Journal Article
Craig, P., Kennedy, J., & Cumming, A. (2005)
Animated interval scatter-plot views for the exploratory analysis of large scale microarray time-course data. Information Visualization, 4, 149-163. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500101
Microarray technologies are a relatively new development that allow biologists to monitor the activity of thousands of genes (normally around 8,000) in parallel across multipl...
Teallach — a flexible user-interface development environment for object database applications
Journal Article
Barclay, P. J., Griffiths, T., McKirdy, J., Kennedy, J., Cooper, R., Paton, N. W., & Gray, P. (2003)
Teallach — a flexible user-interface development environment for object database applications. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, 14(1), 47-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/s1045-926x%2802%2900056-3
The Teallach project has adapted model-based user-interface development techniques to the systematic creation of user-interfaces for object-oriented database applications. Mod...
Novel visualisation techniques for working with multiple, overlapping classification hierarchies
Journal Article
Graham, M., Watson, M. F., & Kennedy, J. (2002)
Novel visualisation techniques for working with multiple, overlapping classification hierarchies. Taxon, 51, 351-358
A Java-based program is presented that provides a visualisation tool for display of and comparison between classification hierarchies. Taxa, or groups of taxa, can be tracked ...