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Wencke Walter, Claudia Haferlach, Wolfgang Kern, Torsten Haferlach, Manja Meggendorfer (MLL Münchner Leukämielabor GmbH Max-Lebsche-Platz 31, 81377 Munich)
Each hour around 35 people in the world die of a blood cancer. However, a fast and accurate diagnosis can cure many people. Leukemia occurs in various forms, and while certain types of leukemia show a uniform manifestation and molecular profile, there are other sub-entities with a significantly wider spectrum. Hence, one year ago we started the 5K project to sequence the genome and transcriptome of 5,000 leukemia patients. Up until now we have completed the sequencing of 4,076 patients producing a total amount of 2.34 PetaBytes of data. In order to make the data accessible and comprehensible for every scientist of our institute we often resort to various data visualizations. Due to the high-dimensionality of the data it is rather challenging to facilitate the combination of various data sets to enhance graphical representation of context-dependent, relevant information. Nevertheless, only by integrating the different data sources we can obtain a more global picture to unravel the complexity of the disease. Apart from the data integration we also use data visualization for quality control purposes by, for example, using Hilber-curves to visualize the patient-specific coverage of the