Arrowland: A Browser-Based Environment for Omics Mapping and Simulation

Today, the biological sciences are at the center of a rapidly expanding universe, of new kinds of data.  We've only just begun to curate, explore, and interpret it.  While pursuing this at JBEI we’ve developed a software tool called Arrowland: a combined omics visualization, showing metabolomics, fluxomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics together on multi-scale, customizable maps, with a unique method of navigation.  The fundamental design goal of Arrowland is to make it easy to get omics data in, and easy to explore.

Arrowland runs in a web browser, as well as on tablets and phones.  It’s fully searchable, and integrated with a modeling library called the Quantitative Metabolic Modeling library, and a data curation tool called the Experiment Data Depot.  All are open-source and free for academic use.  JBEI is seeking collaborators, testers, and co-developers to help us improve Arrowland.