Why Integrate InfoVis and SciVis?: An Example from Systems Biology

The more-or-less artificial barrier between information visualization and scientific visualization hinders knowledge discovery. Having an integrated view of many aspects of the target data, including a seamlessly interwoven visual display of structural abstract data and 3D spatial information, could lead to new discoveries, insights, and scientific questions. Such a view also could reduce the user's cognitive load--that is, reduce the effort the user expends when comparing views.

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