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Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia

By : Diego Javier Zea
Book Image

Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia

By: Diego Javier Zea

Overview of this book

The Julia programming language offers a fresh perspective into the data visualization field. Interactive Visualization and Plotting with Julia begins by introducing the Julia language and the Plots package. The book then gives a quick overview of the Julia plotting ecosystem to help you choose the best library for your task. In particular, you will discover the many ways to create interactive visualizations with its packages. You’ll also leverage Pluto notebooks to gain interactivity and use them intensively through this book. You’ll find out how to create animations, a handy skill for communication and teaching. Then, the book shows how to solve data analysis problems using DataFrames and various plotting packages based on the grammar of graphics. Furthermore, you’ll discover how to create the most common statistical plots for data exploration. Also, you’ll learn to visualize geographically distributed data, graphs and networks, and biological data. Lastly, this book will go deeper into plot customizations with Plots, Makie, and Gadfly—focusing on the former—teaching you to create plot themes, arrange multiple plots into a single figure, and build new plot types. By the end of this Julia book, you’ll be able to create interactive and publication-quality static plots for data analysis and exploration tasks using Julia.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Getting Started
6
Section 2 – Advanced Plot Types
12
Section 3 – Mastering Plot Customization

Plotting a protein sequence and structure

Proteins are the leading actors in the cell, performing most of the actions needed to sustain life. These macromolecules are amino acid residue chains. We usually represent amino acid residues using characters and, therefore, a protein chain as a sequence of characters. Protein chains can adopt a set of tridimensional structures that we can analyze to understand their functional mechanism. This section will explore ways to visualize protein sequence and structure using MIToS and packages from the BioJulia organization. In particular, we will not focus on exploring single sequences but on multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). These alignments show information about the sequence of interest and many other evolutionary-related sequences.

While MIToS focuses on analyzing proteins, the packages in the BioJulia ecosystem can also model other macromolecules, especially DNA and RNA molecules. Using MIToS, we can take advantage of its Plots recipes...