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Jannes Peeters, Jan Aerts (Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium)
Since the reasoning behind visualization is to free up cognitive capacity for interpretation, it is important that visual encodings are according to ’best practices’ rather then ‘used standards’. The purpose of this research was to investigate which tools currently exist to perform a visual analysis on the microbiome, what their features are, and which encodings were used to visualize these features. Tools were selected and reviewed based on a google scholar search on “microbiome visualization”. The main results were that some features are almost exclusively visualized by a certain visual encoding, whereas other more popular features have been visualized in many ways. Web-apps tend to make use of unconventional charts more frequently than microbiome analysis and visualization packages, and novel tools tend to include custom representations as well. To conclude, the variety of tools to choose from is manifold but no one-fits-all approach currently exist. Additional features were added over the years, indicating that our knowledge on the microbiome increases. Further research however is required on whether current visual encodings are efficient or should be improved.