SparkSpotteris a plugin for the ImageJ image analysis platform. It is designed to identify short, bright ‘spark’ events in movies. It was originally designed to work with microsopy images of cell stained with flourescent dyes, but can probably be applied to many different types of input.
Spark is a discovery tool intended to help you explore the patterns in your genome-wide data. While genome browsers offer a powerful means to integrate diverse data types, their view is inherently limited to individual genomic loci and it can be difficult to obtain a global overview of the predominant data patterns. To address this need, we developed Spark, which enables interactive data clustering and visualization, and serves as a complement to genome browsing.
Cydney B. Nielsen, Hamid Younesy, Henriette O’Geen, Xiaoqin Xu, Andrew R. Jackson, Aleksandar Milosavljevic, Ting Wang, Joseph F. Costello, Martin Hirst, Peggy J. Farnham, Steven J.M. Jones. Spark: A navigational paradigm for genomic data exploration. Genome Research. 2012 Nov;22(11):2262-9.