What is DASxVO ?
The DAS web services for functional biology, mainly anatomicaly based gene expression references.
Why Visual Omics ?
Visual Omics encloses Visual Genomics and Visual Proteomics.
Visual Genomics is based on a project that has been working for more than a decade with very fruitful results: the creation of “a digital atlas of mouse development and database to spatially map data such as in situ gene expression” (EMAGE: Christiansen JH et al, 2006). Thus, EMAP offers the possibility to link gene expression data with phenotypical information (organized in a clear ontology of anatomy terms) during mouse embryo development.
Visual Proteomics refers to the ability to provide spatial information, on the location of a number of macromolecular nanomachines inside simple model organisms, with the help of different “tomographic techniques”. These works are having a clear impact in many approaches to (cell-centered) System Biology, since spatial (and temporal) information is essential to develop any model of even the simplest of the cells. The source of this new vision comes from Prof. Baumeister (Nickell et al., 2006).