An outlook into ultra-scale visualization of large-scale biological data

As bioinformatics has evolved from a reductionistic approach to a complementary multi-scale integrative approach, new challenges in ultra-scale visualization have arisen. Even though visualization is a critical component to large-scale biological data analysis, the ultra-scale nature of systems biology has given rise to novel problems in visualization that are not addressed by existing methods. Visualization is a rich and actively researched domain, and there are many open research questions pertaining to the increasing demands of visualization in bioinformatics. In this paper, we present several broadly important ultra-scale visualization challenges and discuss specific examples of ultra-scale applications in systems biology.