Jasper: Microbiome Maps

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Jasper is a scientific research app for visualizing microbiomes. A microbiome is a collection of microbes that inhabit a particular environmental location, such as the human body, earth soil, or the water in oceans and lakes. Jasper visualizes a microbiome using a Hilbert Curve, and allows you to inspect your microbiome sample by clicking anywhere on the image and getting more information about the microbe you just clicked on.

Microbiome Maps are visualizations of microbial community profiles. Each pixel in an image represents the relative abundance of a single taxon from a reference collection. Microbiome Maps can be created with Jasper.

Microbiome Maps communicate abundance information at different levels of a taxon's lineage. For metagenomic whole genome sequencing (mWGS) samples, each position in the image could display information about microbes at the strain level. For 16S samples, each position in the image could display information about microbes at the species level.

After creating your microbiome map, you can print it or save it as an image, so you can share it with your friends.

Learn more at www.microbiomemaps.org