What happens after we eat food? Our body produces insulin to stimulate our cells to convert the sugar from that food into usable energy or store it as fat. Thanks to high-throughput mass spectrometry, this essential process can now be observed in great detail. But the resulting flood of data, encoding a cascade of molecular signaling events at eight time points, is hard to understand.
We developed the novel layout strategy Minardo to address key issues of visualising multivariate datasets, and describe biological processes at different time points. By assigning a time point and a subcellular location to each event, we helped the researchers gain new biological insights.
For an interactive version visit https://minardo.org/snapshots/insulin
