LAB-AID (Laboratory Automated Interrogation of Data): an interactive web application for visualization of multi-level data from biological experiments

A key step in understanding the results of biological experiments is visualization of the data. Many laboratory experiments contain a range of measurements that exist within a hierarchy of interdependence. An automated way to visualise and interrogate experimental data would: 1) lead to improved understanding of the results, 2) help to determine which statistical tests should be performed, and 3) easily identify outliers and sources of batch effects. Unfortunately, existing graphing solutions often demand expertise in programming, require considerable effort to import and examine such multi-level data, or are unnecessarily complex for the task at hand. Here we present LAB-AID (Laboratory Automated Interrogation of Data), an interactive tool specifically designed to automatically visualize and query hierarchical data resulting from biological experiments.