Figure 1From: Genomes as geography: using GIS technology to build interactive genome feature mapsThe GIS paradigm of the map layers can be applied to the integration and visualization of genome data. For a typical geo-referenced map (left) diverse geographic data (road systems, topography, building positions) can be combined by the relation of each data set to the underlying space defined by geographic location. In a similar way diverse genomic data (right) can be combined by the relationship of each data type to an underlying genome coordinate space or to the features in that space.Back to article page