Interactive, highly-responsive “Next-Generation” Clustered Heat Maps (NG-CHMs) are ideal for exploring heat maps of big data. NG-CHMs enable the user to zoom and navigate dynamically and link out to dozens of external data resources and tools. NG-CHMs exploit recent advances in web technology to improve performance, provide a highly-responsive user experience, and facilitate deep exploration of the biology (or other science) behind the image.

We created an interactive compendium of 297 NG-CHMs to illustrate the capabilities of the NG-CHM system using molecular profiling data from the NIH TCGA project at the protein, RNA, and (soon) DNA levels.

However, note that the NG-CHM system is not restricted to biological data; it fully supports data from other domains.