Table 1 Comparison of OLSVis and other two-dimensional ontology visualisers
From: OLSVis: an animated, interactive visual browser for bio-ontologies
OLSVis | OLS | FlexViz | OntoViz | IsaViz | GOSurfer | GOMiner | OntoTrack | OBO-Edit | QuickGO | AmiGO | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full Dynamic layout method | ✓ | ✓(semi) 1 | ✓(semi) 1 | ✓(semi) 1 | ✓(semi) 1 | ||||||
Layout user-interaction | Interactive; + continuous optimisation2 | one-by-one dragging | one-by-one dragging | highlighting a selected branch | one-by-one dragging | one-by-one dragging | |||||
Hierarchy layout | ancestors: layered; children: circular | ancestors: layered; OR: parents + children | several3 | ancestors + children: layered | graph-view or radar-view | tree view | ancestors + children: layered | ancestors + children: layered | ancestors + children: layered | ancestors | subfolders |
Term searching | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||
Multiple term search | ✓ | ||||||||||
Auto-suggest | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||
Filters | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||||||
Undo | ✓ | ✓4 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓4 | ✓4 | |||
Context dependent display 5 | ✓ | ||||||||||
Click on term expands it | ✓ | page reload | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ||||
Path to root | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Simple tree view | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Handling 500 terms | ✓ | ✓ | |||||||||
Term source | OLS (79 ontologies) | OBO (79 ontologies) | NCBO (293 ontologies) | OWL ontologies | RDF graph visualiser | GO (1) | GO (1) | OWL ontologies | OBO ontologies | GO (1) | GO (1) |
Web tool (Technology) | ✓ (Javascript) | ✓ (images) | ✓ (Flash) | –(Protégé) | –(Java) | –(.exe) | –(Java) | –(Java) | –(Java) | ✓ (HTML) | ✓ (HTML) |