Table 5The representative approaches of integrative visualizationMethods
DescriptionURLICM [108]Integrated clustering of multiple types of omics data is essential fordeveloping individual-based treatments and precision medicinehttp://biotech.bmi.ac.cn/icm/MEXPRESS [64]Offers clinical researchers a simple way to evaluate the TCGA data fortheir genes or candidate biomarkers of interesthttp://mexpress.beSteinerNet [110]For researchers who would like to integrate their high-throughput datafor a specific condition or cellular response and to find biologicallymeaningful pathwayhttp://fraenkel-nsf.csbi.mit.edu/steinernet/CrossHub [112]The contribution of different mechanisms to the regulation of geneexpression varies for different tissues and tumorshttps://sourceforge.net/projects/crosshub/Anduril [111]To translate the fragmented and heterogeneous datasets into knowledgehttp://csbi.ltdk.helsinki.fi/anduril/Web-TCGA [68]Integrated analysis of molecular cancer datasets provided by TCGAhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/webtcga/Ensembl Genomes [106] Participants in a growing range of collaborations involved in theannotation and analysis of genomeshttp://www.ensemblgenomes.orgINMEX [109]Properly combining or integrating the datasets with similar basichypotheses can help reduce study bias, increase statistical power, andimprove overall biological understandinghttp://www.inmex.cacBioPortal [107]To provide a practical guide to the analysis and visualization features ofthe cBioPortal for cancer genomicshttp://cbioportal.orgIntegrative Analysis of Omics Big Data 125