Glyph-based Overviews of Large Datasets in Structural Bioinformatics

The exponential growth of structural bioinformatics data implies a need for visualization tools that provide informative overviews of large datasets. Nevertheless, online query interfaces and domain-specific visualization tools have neglected to provide suitable overviews. We identify four functional goals for large-scale overviews. We apply these goals to create glyph-based visualizations of query results from the Protein Data Bank.