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08191 Executive Summary – Graph Drawing with Applications to Bioinformatics and Social Sciences Borgatti, Stephen Kobourov, Stephen Kohlbacher, Oliver Mutzel, Petra Graph drawing visualization social sciences bioinformatics Graph drawing deals with the problem of communicating the structure of relational data through diagrams, or drawings. The ability to represent relational information in a graphical form is a powerful tool which allows to perform analysis through visual exploration to find important patterns, trends, and correlations. Real-world applications such as bioinformatics and sociology pose challenges to the relational visualization because, e.g., semantic information carried by the diagram has to be used for obtaining meaningful layouts and application-specific drawing conventions need to be fulfilled. Moreover, the underlying data often stems from huge data bases, but only a small fraction shall be displayed at a time; the user interactively selects the data to be displayed and explores the graph by expanding interesting and collapsing irrelevant parts. This requires powerful graph exploration tools with navigation capabilities that allow dynamic adaption of the graph layout in real time. In this seminar we focused on the application of graph drawing in two important application domains: bioinformatics and social sciences. We brought together theoreticians and practitioners from these areas and focused on problems concerning interaction with and navigation in large and dynamic networks arising in these application areas; During the seminar, we identified and defined open graph drawing problems that are motivated by practical applications in the targeted application areas, tackled selected open problems, formulated the findings as a first step to the solution, and defined further research directions. Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik Stephen Borgatti and Stephen Kobourov and Oliver Kohlbacher and Petra Mutzel 2008 Is Part Of Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 8191, Graph Drawing with Applications to Bioinformatics and Social Sciences (2008) InProceedings Text doc-type:ResearchArticle publishedVersion application/pdf doi:10.4230/DagSemProc.08191.2 urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-15523 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.08191.2 eng https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode