Peer-Reviewed Journal and Conference Papers
Unlocking User-Centered Design Methods for Building Cyber Security Visualizations
Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VIS ’15), 2015
Towards Ecological Validity in Evaluating Uncertainty
Proceedings of Workshop on Visualization for Decision Making Under Uncertainty, at VIS '15, to appear, 2015
s-CorrPlot: An Interactive Scatterplot for Exploring Correlation
Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2015
Visually Comparing Weather Features in Forecasts
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’15), to appear, 2015
Vials: Visualizing Alternative Splicing of Genes
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’15), to appear, 2015
Poemage: Visualizing the Sonic Topology of a Poem
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’15), to appear, 2015
A Shot at Visual Vulnerability Analysis
Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis ’15), 2015
OceanPaths: Visualizing Multivariate Oceanography Data
Proceedings of the Eurographics Conference on Visualization (EuroVis ’15) - Short Papers, 2015
ConTour: Data-Driven Exploration of Multi-Relational Datasets for Drug Discovery
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (VAST '14), 20(12), pp. 1883-1892, 2014
Information visualisation for science and policy: engaging users and avoiding bias
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 148, 2014
Guided Visual Exploration of Genomic Stratifications in Cancer
Nature Methods, 11, pp. 884–885, 2014
UpSet: Visualization of Intersecting Sets
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '14), vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 1983–1992, 2014
Domino: Extracting, Comparing, and Manipulating Subsets across Multiple Tabular Datasets
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '14), 20(12), pp. 2023-2032, 2014
Design Activity Framework for Visualization Design
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis ’14), 20(12), pp. 2191-2200, 2014
Show me the Invisible: Visualizing Hidden Content
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14), pp. 3705-3714, 2014
Characterizing Cancer Subtypes using the Dual Analysis Approach in Caleydo StratomeX
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 34(2), pp. 38–47, 2014
Mu-8: Visualizing Differences between Proteins and their Families
BMC Proceedings, vol. 8, no. Suppl 2, p. S5, 2014
Reflections on How Designers Design With Data
AVI 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI ’14), 2014
The Nested Blocks and Guidelines Model
Information Visualization, 14(3), pp. 234–249, 2015
LineUp: Visual Analysis of Multi-Attribute Rankings
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '13), 19(12), pp. 2277–2286, 2013
Entourage: Visualizing Relationships between Biological Pathways using Contextual Subsets
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '13), 19(12), pp. 2536–2545, 2013
Rule-based Visual Mappings with a Case Study on Poetry Visualization
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '13), 32(3), 2013
Visualization Collaborations: Reflections on What Works and Why
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, 33(6), p. 82, 2013
enRoute: Dynamic Path Extraction from Biological Pathway Maps for Exploring Heterogeneous Experimental Datasets
BMC Bioinformatics, 14(Suppl 19), p. S3, 2013
Visualizing Uncertainty in Biological Expression Data
Proceedings of the SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA '12), pp. 82940O, 2012
Model-Driven Design for the Visual Analysis of Heterogeneous Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 18(6), pp. 998-1010, 2012
Design Study Methodology: Reflections from the Trenches and the Stacks
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '12), 18(12), pp. 2431, 2012
StratomeX: Visual Analysis of Large-Scale Heterogeneous Genomics Data for Cancer Subtype Characterization
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '12), 31(3), pp. 1175-1184, 2012
Aggregate Gaze Visualization with Real-time Heatmaps
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications (ETRA), 2012
enRoute: Dynamic Path Extraction from Biological Pathway Maps for In-Depth Experimental Data Analysis
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis ’12), pp. 107–114, 2012
A Conserved Developmental Patterning Network Produces Quantitatively Different Output in Multiple Species of Drosophila
PLoS Genetics, 7(10):e1002346, 2011
Visualizing the Effects of Logically Combined Filters
Proceedings of the Conference on Information Visualisation (IV ’2011), pp. 47-52, 2011
VisBricks: Multiform Visualization of Large, Inhomogeneous Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '11), 17(12), pp. 2291-2300, 2011
Context-Preserving Visual Links
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis'11), 2249-2258, 17(12), 2011
Caleydo: Design and Evaluation of a Visual Analysis Framework for Gene Expression Data in its Biological Context
Proceedings of IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis '10), pp. 57-64, 2010
MulteeSum: A Tool for Comparative Spatial and Temporal Gene Expression Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '2010), 16(6), pp. 908, 2010
Comparative Analysis of Multidimensional, Quantitative Data
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '2010), 16(6), pp. 1027-1035, 2010
Visual Links across Applications
Proceedings of the Graphics Interface (GI) 2010, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2010
Pathline: A Tool for Comparative Functional Genomics
Computer Graphics Forum (EuroVis '10), 29(3), 2010
Genome-wide synteny through highly sensitive sequence alignment: Satsuma,
Bioinformatics, 26(9):1145-1151, 2010
Connecting Genes with Diseases
Proceedings of the Conference on Information Visualisation (IV ’2009), 2009
MizBee: A Multiscale Synteny Browser,
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (InfoVis '2009), 15(6), pp. 897, 2009
Design Considerations for Collaborative Information Workspaces in Multi-Display Environments
Proceedings of Workshop on Collaborative Visualization on Interactive Surfaces (CoVIS'09), at VisWeek, ISSN 1862-5207, pp. 5-8, Atlantic City, USA, 2009
Gaze-Based Focus Adaption in an Information Visualization System
Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Graphics and Visualization and Image Processing (CGVCVIP '09), 2009
Caleydo: Connecting Pathways with Gene Expression
Bioinformatics, Oxford Journals, 25(20), pp. 2760-2761, 2009
Posters
Designing STAR: A Cyber Dashboard Prototype
Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VIS ’14), 2014
s-CorrPlot: Encoding and Exploring Correlation
Proceedings of the IEEE Information Visualization Conference (InfoVis ’14), 2014
compariSeq: Rethinking Sequence Logos
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis ’13), 2013
compreheNGSive: A Tool for Exploring Next-Gen Sequencing Variants
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis ’12), 2012
Theses
Alexander Lex
Visualization of Multidimensional Data with Applications in Molecular Biology
Graz University of Technology, PhD Thesis, March 2012
Alex Bigelow
Driving Genetics With Experimental Visualization
University of Utah, Bachelor Thesis, May 2012