Enhancing scatterplots with smoothed densities

MOTIVATION Scatterplots of microarray data generally contain a very large number of dots, making it difficult to get a good impression of their distribution in dense areas. RESULTS We present a fast and simple algorithm for two-dimensional histogram smoothing, to visually enhance scatterplots. AVAILABILITY Functions for Matlab and R are available from the corresponding author.

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