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Team names & bios Epiview  -----  Matt Ritchie, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute ([email protected]

The Problem  ----------  This team developed a simple and highly visually effective software package to display genetic and epigenetic marks, allowing the user to view many different layers of information at once, and to easily switch between viewing a single region of one gene, to viewing many genes, and even a whole chromosome.  I want to display a heap of genetic information at once …  We need a simple and highly visually effective software package to display genetic and epigenetic marks, where we can view many different layers of information at once, and easily switch between viewing a single region of one gene, to viewing many genes, to even viewing a whole chromosome. There are many publicly available datasets that could be used to create such visualisation software, software.  and it would be worth considering the currently available systems for viewing such data (e.g. Galaxy, UCSC Genome Browser, IGV, SeqMonk). While each of these has its benefits, none provide a holistic view of the data that allows optimal visualisation. *Every cell in the body contains all the genes of the genome – the entire DNA content of a cell – but not every cell in the body is the same. For example, a heart cell is very different to a neuron. How can these cells be so different if they all contain the same genes? The answer is that each cell type turns on, or uses, a distinct set of genes. This means that each cell type makes its own complement of protein products that help determine the cell type’s function.