Method and apparatus for displaying information

Abstract

A method for displaying large amounts of information. The method includes the steps of forming a spatial layout of tiles each corresponding to a representative reference element; mapping observed elements onto the spatial layout of tiles of representative reference elements; assigning a respective value to each respective tile of the spatial layout of the representative elements; and displaying an image of the spatial layout of tiles of representative elements. Each tile includes atomic attributes of representative elements. The invention also relates to an apparatus for displaying large amounts of information. The apparatus includes a tiler forming a spatial layout of tiles, each corresponding to a representative reference element; a comparator mapping observed elements onto said spatial layout of tiles of representative reference elements; an assigner assigning a respective value to each respective tile of said spatial layout of representative reference elements; and a display displaying an image of the spatial layout of tiles of representative reference elements.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] The application claims priority to U.S. Provisional application 60 / 452,857 filed Mar. 7, 2003 and assigned to the assignee of the instant application. The provisional application is hereby incorporated by reference herein. This application incorporates by reference U.S. utility application Ser. No. 09 / 985,963 filed Oct. 19, 2001 which claims priority to provisional application 60 / 242,009 filed Oct. 20, 2000 both of which assigned to the assignee of the instant invention. Both utility application Ser. No. 09 / 985,963 and provisional application 60 / 242,009 are herein incorporated by reference.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates generally to the field of informatics and more specifically to the field of informatic displays. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] The behavior of a large number of interacting elements in a system is difficult to display, analyze and interpret. Many techniques have been attempted to derive an ordered model from the e...

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The behavior of a large number of interacting elements in a system is difficult to display, analyze and interpret.

However, displaying these genes as a matrix of expression behaviors provides a complicated array of graphs that does not help significantly with the analysis of the interactive gene behavior or with the interpretation of coherent patterns that emerge in the displayed expression profiles.

Similarly, other currently used analysis techniques for gene profiling, such as in hierarchical clustering, k-means clustering or principal component analysis, group genes into a small number of clusters relative to the total number of genes, and also fail to visualize patterns within the overall gene profile.

Existing gene clustering techniques are generally not capable of simultaneously monitoring multiple dimensions, and hence a new method is required to visualize these global time-dependent changes in gene expression profiles.

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