Visualization technique for biological information

A method for controlling operation of a computerized visualization system, in order to visualize biological information, the method comprising the following steps performed by the computerized visualization system:

• generating a user interface and receiving a user query relating to biological information via the generated user interface;
• maintaining connections to a plurality of databases which store at least partially non-overlapping biological information;
• determining which database of the plurality of databases contains the biological information relating to the received query;
• sending a database query to the determined database and receiving a result of the database query, the result comprising entities that are biological and relations between the entities;
• creating a network based on the result of the database query, wherein the network-creating step comprises mapping the entities to network nodes and the relations to network connections;
• determining a distance matrix for indicating a distance for several pairs of network nodes, each distance being calculated across several dimensions;
• applying a dimensionality reduction function to map the distance matrix to a lower number of dimensions;
• searching for neighbors of a selected network node based on the distance matrix in order to elucidate a biological role of the selected network node;
• adjusting the dimensionality reduction function based on one or more research contexts of the biological information, in order to bias the search toward a relevant focus;
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• re-creating and visualizing the network based on the adjusted dimensionality reduction function.