Title
Hiplot: a comprehensive and easy-to-use web service for boosting publication-ready biomedical data visualization
Abstract
Complex biomedical data generated during clinical, omics and mechanism-based experiments have increasingly been exploited through cloud- and visualization-based data mining techniques. However, the scientific community still lacks an easy-to-use web service for the comprehensive visualization of biomedical data, particularly high-quality and publication-ready graphics that allow easy scaling and updatability according to user demands. Therefore, we propose a community-driven modern web service, Hiplot (https://hiplot.org), with concise and top-quality data visualization applications for the life sciences and biomedical fields. This web service permits users to conveniently and interactively complete a few specialized visualization tasks that previously could only be conducted by senior bioinformatics or biostatistics researchers. It covers most of the daily demands of biomedical researchers with its equipped 240+ biomedical data visualization functions, involving basic statistics, multi-omics, regression, clustering, dimensional reduction, meta-analysis, survival analysis, risk modelling, etc. Moreover, to improve the efficiency in use and development of plugins, we introduced some core advantages on the client-/server-side of the website, such as spreadsheet-based data importing, cross-platform command-line controller (Hctl), multi-user plumber workers, JavaScript Object Notation-based plugin system, easy data/parameters, results and errors reproduction and real-time updates mode. Meanwhile, using demo/real data sets and benchmark tests, we explored statistical parameters, cancer genomic landscapes, disease risk factors and the performance of website based on selected native plugins. The statistics of visits and user numbers could further reflect the potential impact of this web service on relevant fields. Thus, researchers devoted to life and data sciences would benefit from this emerging and free web service.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/bib/bbac261
BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
web service, data visualization, data mining, risk models, translational medicine
Journal
23
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
1467-5463
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
21
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jian-Feng Li101.01
Benben Miao200.34
Shixiang Wang301.01
Wei Dong400.34
Houshi Xu500.34
Chenchen Si600.34
Wei Wang75821.31
Songqi Duan800.34
Jiacheng Lou900.34
Zhiwei Bao1000.34
Hailuan Zeng1100.34
Zengzeng Yang1200.34
Wenyan Cheng1300.34
Fei Zhao1400.34
Jianming Zeng1500.34
Xue-Song Liu1600.34
Renxie Wu1700.34
Yang Shen1824.10
Zhu Chen1900.34
Saijuan Chen2000.34
Mingjie Wang2100.34