Sehi L'Yi

Design Space and Declarative Grammar for 3D Genomic Data Visualization

David Kouřil, Trevor Manz, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2026) (accepted)

Automatic Synthesis of Visualization Design Knowledge Bases

Hyeok Kim, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg, Jeffrey Heer

In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26) (2026)

25.3% acceptance rate

Multimodal Retrieval of Genomics Data Visualizations

Huyen N. Nguyen, Sehi L'Yi, Thomas C. Smits, Shanghua Gao, Marinka Zitnik, Nils Gehlenborg

OSF Preprints (2026)

Learnable and Expressive Visualization Authoring Through Blended Interfaces

Sehi L'Yi, Astrid van den Brandt, Etowah Adams, Huyen N. Nguyen, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2025)

23.2% acceptance rate

Best Paper Honorable Mention

A comprehensive evaluation of life sciences data resources reveals significant accessibility barriers

Sehi L'Yi, Harrison G. Zhang, Andrew P. Mar, Thomas C. Smits, Lawrence Weru, Sofía Rojas, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg

Scientific Reports (2025) 15, 23676

Ten Simple Rules for Making Biomedical Data Resources Accessible

Thomas C. Smits, Lawrence Weru, Nils Gehlenborg^‡, Sehi L'Yi^‡

PLoS Computational Biology (2025) (accepted)

Gosling Designer: a Platform to Democratize Construction and Sharing of Genomics Data Visualization Tools

Sehi L'Yi, John Conroy, Priya Misner, David Kouřil, Lisa Choy, Nezar Abdennur, Nils Gehlenborg

arXiv (2025)

Understanding Visualization Authoring Techniques for Genomics Data in the Context of Personas and Tasks

Astrid van den Brandt**, Sehi L'Yi, Huyen N. Nguyen, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2025)

23.2% acceptance rate

GQVis: A Dataset of Genomics Data Questions and Visualizations for Generative AI

Skylar Walters**, Arthea Valderrama, Thomas C. Smits, David Kouřil, Huyen N. Nguyen, Sehi L'Yi, Devin Lange, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE VIS Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS (VISxGenAI) (2025)

Characterizing Multimodal Interaction in Visualization Authoring Tools

Astrid van den Brandt**, Sehi L'Yi, Huyen N. Nguyen, Anna Vilanova, Nils Gehlenborg

arXiv (2025)

Mitochondrial-encoded peptide MOTS-c prevents pancreatic islet cell senescence to delay diabetes

Byung Soo Kong, Hyunsuk Lee, Sehi L'Yi, Serin Hong, Young Min Cho

Experimental & Molecular Medicine (2025)

The mitochondrial NAD transporter SLC25A51 is a modulator of beta cell senescence and type 2 diabetes

Byung Soo Kong, Sehi L'Yi, Erika Gabriela Ramirez-Hernandez, Serin Hong, Rosa Weidenspointner, Suyeon Song, Chase Caserta, Young Min Cho, Nora Kory

bioRxiv (2025)

Explaining Unfamiliar Genomics Data Visualizations to a Blind Individual through Transitions

Thomas C. Smits**, Sehi L'Yi, Huyen N. Nguyen, Andrew Mar, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE VIS Workshop on Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz) (2024)

Using OpenKeyNav to Enhance the Keyboard-Accessibility of Web-based Data Visualization Tools

Lawrence Weru**, Sehi L'Yi, Thomas C. Smits, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE VIS Workshop on Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz) (2024)

AltGosling: Automatic Generation of Text Descriptions for Accessible Genomics Data Visualization

Thomas C Smits**, Sehi L'Yi, Andrew Patrick Mar, Nils Gehlenborg

Bioinformatics (2024)

Runner-Up Abstract Award at ISMB BioVis 2025

Cistrome Data Browser: integrated search, analysis, and visualization of chromatin data

Len Taing, Ariaki Dandawate, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg, Myles Brown, Clifford A Meyer

Nucleic Acids Research (2024) 52(D1), D61-D66

Multi-view Design Patterns and Responsive Visualization for Genomics Data

Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2023) 29(1), 559-569

26.5% acceptance rate

Chromoscope: interactive multiscale visualization for structural variation in human genomes

Sehi L'Yi, Dominika Maziec, Victoria Stevens, Trevor Manz, Alexander Veit, Michele Berselli, Peter J Park, Dominik Głodzik, Nils Gehlenborg

Nature Methods (2023) 20, 1834–1835

Cistrome Explorer: An Interactive Visual Analysis Tool for Large-Scale Epigenomic Data

Sehi L'Yi, Mark S Keller, Ariaki Dandawate, Len Taing, Chen-Hao Chen, Myles Brown, Clifford A Meyer, Nils Gehlenborg

Bioinformatics (2023) 39(2), btad018

The Role of Visualization in Genomics Data Analysis Workflows: The Interview

Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Nils Gehlenborg

Proc. VIS (2023) 28(1), 101-105

33.7% acceptance rate

GenoREC: A Recommendation System for Interactive Genomics Data Visualization

Aditeya Pandey**, Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Michelle A Borkin, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2023) 29(1), 570-580

26.5% acceptance rate

IEEE InfoVis Best Poster Research Award

Enabling Multimodal User Interactions for Genomics Visualization Creation

Qianwen Wang, Xiao Liu, Man Qing Liang, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg

In Proc. IEEE VIS (2023) 111-115

33.7% acceptance rate

Drava: Concept-Driven Exploration of Small Multiples Using Interpretable Latent Vectors

Qianwen Wang, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg

In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23) (2023) 833, 1-15

27.6% acceptance rate

Gos: a declarative library for interactive genomics visualization in Python

Trevor Manz, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg

Bioinformatics (2023) 39(1), btad050

Identifying shared genetic architecture between rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions: a phenome-wide association study with genetic risk scores

Harrison G Zhang, Greg McDermott, Thany Seyok, Sicong Huang, Kumar Dahal, Sehi L'Yi, Clara Lea-Bonzel, Jacklyn Stratton, Dana Weisenfeld, Paul Monach, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Kun-Hsing Yu, Tianrun Cai, Jing Cui, Chuan Hong, Tianxi Cai, Katherine P Liao

EBioMedicine, 2023 (2023) 92, 104581

Potential pitfalls in the use of real world data to study Long COVID

Harrison Zhang, Jacqueline Honerlaw, Monika Maripuri, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Brendin Beaulieu-Jones, Huma Baig, Sehi L'Yi, Yuk-Lam Ho, Michele Morris, Vidul Ayakulangara Panickan, Xuan Wang, Griffin Weber, Katherine P Liao, Shyam Visweswaran, Bryce Tan, William Yuan, Nils Gehlenborg, Sumitra Muralidhar, Rachel Ramoni, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Isaac Kohane, Zongqi Xia, Kelly Cho, and Tianxi Cai

Nature Medicine (2023) 29, 1040-1043

Gosling: A Grammar-based Toolkit for Scalable and Interactive Genomics Data Visualization

Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Fritz Lekschas, Nils Gehlenborg

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2022) 28(1), 40-150

25.8% acceptance rate

ISMB/ECCB BioVis Best Abstract Award

Changes in laboratory value improvement and mortality rates over the course of the pandemic: an international retrospective cohort study of hospitalised patients infected with SARS-CoV-2

Chuan Hong^‡, Harrison G Zhang^‡, Sehi L'Yi^‡, Griffin Weber, Paul Avillach, Bryce W Q Tan, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Nathan P Palmer, Alberto Malovini, Valentina Tibollo, Yuan Luo, Meghan R Hutch, Molei Liu, Florence Bourgeois, Riccardo Bellazzi, Luca Chiovato, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Trang T Le, Xuan Wang, William Yuan, Antoine Neuraz, Vincent Benoit, Bertrand Moal, Michele Morris, David A Hanauer, Sarah Maidlow, Kavishwar Wagholikar, Shawn Murphy, Hossein Estiri, Adeline Makoudjou, Patric Tippmann, Jeffery Klann, Robert W Follett, Nils Gehlenborg, Gilbert S Omenn, Zongqi Xia, Arianna Dagliati, Shyam Visweswaran, Lav P Patel, Danielle L Mowery, Emily R Schriver, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Daniela Zöller, Amelia L M Tan, Byorn W L Tan, Kee Yuan Ngiam, John H Holmes, Petra Schubert, Kelly Cho, Yuk-Lam Ho, Brett K Beaulieu-Jones, Miguel Pedrera-Jiménez, Noelia García-Barrio, Pablo Serrano-Balazote, Isaac Kohane, Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Andrew South, Gabriel A Brat, Tianxi Cai

BMJ Open (2022) 12, 6

International comparisons of laboratory values from the 4CE collaborative to predict COVID-19 mortality

Griffin M. Weber, Chuan Hong, Zongqi Xia, Nathan P. Palmer, Paul Avillach, Sehi L'Yi, Mark S. Keller, Shawn N. Murphy, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Arnaud Serret-Larmande, Antoine Neuraz, Gilbert S. Omenn, Shyam Visweswaran, Jeffrey G. Klann, Andrew M. South, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Mario Cannataro, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Riccardo Bellazzi, Giuseppe Agapito, Mario Alessiani, Bruce J. Aronow, Douglas S. Bell, Vincent Benoit, Florence T. Bourgeois, Luca Chiovato, Kelly Cho, Arianna Dagliati, Scott L. DuVall, Noelia García Barrio, David A. Hanauer, Yuk-Lam Ho, John H. Holmes, Richard W. Issitt, Molei Liu, Yuan Luo, Kristine E. Lynch, Sarah E. Maidlow, Alberto Malovini, Kenneth D. Mandl, Chengsheng Mao, Michael E. Matheny, Jason H. Moore, Jeffrey S. Morris, Michele Morris, Danielle L. Mowery, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Lav P. Patel, Miguel Pedrera-Jimenez, Rachel B. Ramoni, Emily R. Schriver, Petra Schubert, Pablo Serrano Balazote, Anastasia Spiridou, Amelia L. M. Tan, Byorn W. L. Tan, Valentina Tibollo, Carlo Torti, Enrico M. Trecarichi, Xuan Wang, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Isaac S. Kohane, Tianxi Cai, Gabriel A. Brat

npj Digital Medicine (2022) 5, 74

International electronic health record-derived post-acute sequelae profiles of COVID-19 patients

Harrison G. Zhang, Arianna Dagliati, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Xin Xiong, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Zongqi Xia, Bryce W. Q. Tan, Paul Avillach, Gabriel A. Brat, Chuan Hong, Michele Morris, Shyam Visweswaran, Lav P. Patel, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, David A. Hanauer, John H. Holmes, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Florence T. Bourgeois, Sehi L'Yi, Sarah E. Maidlow, Bertrand Moal, Shawn N. Murphy, Zachary H. Strasser, Antoine Neuraz, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Gilbert S. Omenn, Andrea Prunotto, Lauren A. Dalvin, Jeffrey G. Klann, Petra Schubert, Fernando J. Sanz Vidorreta, Vincent Benoit, Guillaume Verdy, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Hossein Estiri, Yuan Luo, Alberto Malovini, Valentina Tibollo, Riccardo Bellazzi, Kelly Cho, Yuk-Lam Ho, Amelia L. M. Tan, Byorn W. L. Tan, Nils Gehlenborg, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Vianney Jouhet, Luca Chiovato, Bruce J. Aronow, Emma M. S. Toh, Wei Gen Scott Wong, Sara Pizzimenti, Kavishwar B. Wagholikar, Mauro Bucalo, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Tianxi Cai, Andrew M. South, Isaac S. Kohane, Griffin M. Weber

npj Digital Medicine (2022) 5, 1

SurvMaximin: robust federated approach to transporting survival risk prediction models

Xuan Wang, Harrison G Zhang, Xin Xiong, Chuan Hong, Griffin M Weber, Gabriel A Brat, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Yuan Luo, Rui Duan, Nathan P Palmer, Meghan R Hutch, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Riccardo Bellazzi, Luca Chiovato, Kelly Cho, Arianna Dagliati, Hossein Estiri, Noelia García-Barrio, Romain Griffier, David A Hanauer, Yuk-Lam Ho, John H Holmes, Mark S Keller, Jeffrey G Klann MEng, Sehi L'Yi, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Sarah E Maidlow, Adeline Makoudjou, Alberto Malovini, Bertrand Moal, Jason H Moore, Michele Morris, Danielle L Mowery, Shawn N Murphy, Antoine Neuraz, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Gilbert S Omenn, Lav P Patel, Miguel Pedrera-Jiménez, Andrea Prunotto, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Emily R Schriver, Petra Schubert, Pablo Serrano-Balazote, Andrew M South, Amelia L M Tan, Byorn W L Tan, Valentina Tibollo, Patric Tippmann, Shyam Visweswaran, Zongqi Xia, William Yuan, Daniela Zöller, Isaac S Kohane, Paul Avillach, Zijian Guo, Tianxi Cai, Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE)

Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2022) 134, 104176

Comparative Layouts Revisited: Design Space, Guidelines, and Future Directions

Sehi L'Yi, Jaemin Jo, Jinwook Seo

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2021) 27(2), 1525-1535

25.6% acceptance rate

International Changes in COVID-19 Clinical Trajectories Across 315 Hospitals and 6 Countries: Retrospective Cohort Study

Griffin M Weber^‡, Harrison G Zhang^‡, Sehi L'Yi^‡, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Chuan Hong, Paul Avillach, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Nathan P Palmer, Amelia Li Min Tan, Xuan Wang, William Yuan, Nils Gehlenborg, Anna Alloni, Danilo F Amendola, Antonio Bellasi, Riccardo Bellazzi, Michele Beraghi, Mauro Bucalo, Luca Chiovato, Kelly Cho, Arianna Dagliati, Hossein Estiri, Robert W Follett, Noelia García Barrio, David A Hanauer, Darren W Henderson, Yuk-Lam Ho, John H Holmes, Meghan R Hutch, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Katie Kirchoff, Jeffrey G Klann, Ashok K Krishnamurthy, Trang T Le, Molei Liu, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Yuan Luo, Sarah Maidlow, Adeline Makoudjou, Alberto Malovini, Marcelo Roberto Martins, Bertrand Moal, Michele Morris, Danielle L Mowery, Shawn N Murphy, Antoine Neuraz, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Marina P Okoshi, Gilbert S Omenn, Lav P Patel, Miguel Pedrera Jiménez, Robson A Prudente, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Emily R Schriver, Petra Schubert, Pablo Serrano Balazote, Byorn Wl Tan, Suzana E Tanni, Valentina Tibollo, Shyam Visweswaran, Kavishwar B Wagholikar, Zongqi Xia, Daniela Zöller, Consortium For Clinical Characterization Of COVID-19 By EHR (4CE), Isaac S Kohane, Tianxi Cai*, Andrew M South*, Gabriel A Brat*

Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021) 23(10):e31400

ProReveal: Progressive Visual Analytics with Safeguards

Jaemin Jo, Sehi L'Yi, Jinwook Seo

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (2021) 27(7), 3109-3122

International Electronic Health Record-Derived COVID-19 Clinical Course Profiles: the 4CE Consortium

Gabriel A. Brat, Griffin M. Weber, Nils Gehlenborg, Paul Avillach, Nathan P. Palmer, Luca Chiovato, James Cimino, Lemuel R. Waitman, Gilbert S. Omenn, Alberto Malovini, Jason H. Moore, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Valentina Tibollo, Shawn N. Murphy, Sehi L'Yi, Mark S. Keller, Riccardo Bellazzi, David A. Hanauer, Arnaud Serret-Larmande, Alba Gutierrez-Sacristan, John J. Holmes, Douglas S. Bell, Kenneth D. Mandl, Robert W. Follett, Jeffrey G. Klann, Douglas A. Murad, Luigia Scudeller, Mauro Bucalo, Katie Kirchoff, Jean Craig, Jihad Obeid, Vianney Jouhet, Romain Griffier, Sebastien Cossin, Bertrand Moal, Lav P. Patel, Antonio Bellasi, Hans U. Prokosch, Detlef Kraska, Piotr Sliz, Amelia L. M. Tan, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Alberto Zambelli, Danielle L. Mowery, Emily Schiver, Batsal Devkota, Robert L. Bradford, Mohamad Daniar, Christel Daniel, Vincent Benoit, Romain Bey, Nicolas Paris, Patricia Serre, Nina Orlova, Julien Dubiel, Martin Hilka, Anne Sophie Jannot, Stephane Breant, Judith Leblanc, Nicolas Griffon, Anita Burgun, Melodie Bernaux, Arnaud Sandrin, Elisa Salamanca, Sylvie Cormont, Thomas Ganslandt, Tobias Gradinger, Julien Champ, Martin Boeker, Patricia Martel, Loic Esteve, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel, Damien Leprovost, Thomas Moreau, Gael Varoquaux, Jill-Jênn Vie, Demian Wassermann, Arthur Mensch, Charlotte Caucheteux, Christian Haverkamp, Guillaume Lemaitre, Silvano Bosari, Ian D. Krantz, Andrew South, Tianxi Cai, Isaac S. Kohane

npj Digital Medicine (2020) 3(109)

Toward Understanding Representation Methods in Visualization Recommendations through Scatterplot Construction Tasks

Sehi L'Yi, Youli Chang, DongHwa Shin, Jinwook Seo

Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis) (2019) 29(1), 570-580

31.2% acceptance rate

Visual Analytics for Comparing Multiple Clustering Results of Bioinformatics Data

Sehi L'Yi, Bongkyung Ko, DongHwa Shin, Young-Joon Cho, Jaeyong Lee, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo

The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction (2018) 945-966 (Book Chapter)

miRTarVis+: Web-based interactive visual analytics tool for microRNA target predictions

Sehi L'Yi, Daekyoung Jung, Minsik Oh, Bohyoung Kim, Robert J. Freishtat, Mamta Giri, Eric Hoffman, Jinwook Seo

Methods (2017) 27(7), 3109-3122

TouchPivot: Blending WIMP & Post-WIMP Interfaces for Data Exploration on Tablet Devices

Jaemin Jo, Sehi L'Yi, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo

In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17) (2017) 2660-2671

25% acceptance rate

CloakingNote: A Novel Desktop Interface for Subtle Writing Using Decoy Texts

Sehi L'Yi, Jaemin Jo, Kyle Koh, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo

In Proceedings of the 29th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST ’16) (2016) 473-481

21% acceptance rate

XCluSim: A Visual Analytics Tool for Interactively Comparing Multiple Clustering Results of Bioinformatics Data

Sehi L'Yi, Bongkyung Ko, DongHwa Shin, Young-Joon Cho, Jaeyong Lee, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo

BMC Bioinformatics (2015) 16 Suppl 11: S5

Understanding Users’ Touch Behavior on Large Mobile Touch-Screens and Assisted Targeting by Tilting Gesture

Youli Chang, Sehi L'Yi, Kyle Koh, Jinwook Seo

In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15) (2015) 1499-1508

25% acceptance rate

2026
Design Space and Declarative Grammar for 3D Genomic Data Visualization David Kouřil, Trevor Manz, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2026) (accepted)
Automatic Synthesis of Visualization Design Knowledge Bases Hyeok Kim, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg, Jeffrey Heer In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26) (2026) 25.3% acceptance rate
Multimodal Retrieval of Genomics Data Visualizations Huyen N. Nguyen, Sehi L'Yi, Thomas C. Smits, Shanghua Gao, Marinka Zitnik, Nils Gehlenborg OSF Preprints (2026)
2025
Learnable and Expressive Visualization Authoring Through Blended Interfaces Sehi L'Yi, Astrid van den Brandt, Etowah Adams, Huyen N. Nguyen, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2025) 23.2% acceptance rate Best Paper Honorable Mention
A comprehensive evaluation of life sciences data resources reveals significant accessibility barriers Sehi L'Yi, Harrison G. Zhang, Andrew P. Mar, Thomas C. Smits, Lawrence Weru, Sofía Rojas, Alexander Lex, Nils Gehlenborg Scientific Reports (2025) 15, 23676
Ten Simple Rules for Making Biomedical Data Resources Accessible Thomas C. Smits, Lawrence Weru, Nils Gehlenborg^‡, Sehi L'Yi^‡ PLoS Computational Biology (2025) (accepted)
Gosling Designer: a Platform to Democratize Construction and Sharing of Genomics Data Visualization Tools Sehi L'Yi, John Conroy, Priya Misner, David Kouřil, Lisa Choy, Nezar Abdennur, Nils Gehlenborg arXiv (2025)
Understanding Visualization Authoring Techniques for Genomics Data in the Context of Personas and Tasks Astrid van den Brandt, Sehi L'Yi**, Huyen N. Nguyen, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2025) 23.2% acceptance rate
GQVis: A Dataset of Genomics Data Questions and Visualizations for Generative AI Skylar Walters, Arthea Valderrama, Thomas C. Smits, David Kouřil, Huyen N. Nguyen, Sehi L'Yi**, Devin Lange, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE VIS Workshop on GenAI, Agents, and the Future of VIS (VISxGenAI) (2025)
Characterizing Multimodal Interaction in Visualization Authoring Tools Astrid van den Brandt, Sehi L'Yi**, Huyen N. Nguyen, Anna Vilanova, Nils Gehlenborg arXiv (2025)
Mitochondrial-encoded peptide MOTS-c prevents pancreatic islet cell senescence to delay diabetes Byung Soo Kong, Hyunsuk Lee, Sehi L'Yi, Serin Hong, Young Min Cho Experimental & Molecular Medicine (2025)
The mitochondrial NAD transporter SLC25A51 is a modulator of beta cell senescence and type 2 diabetes Byung Soo Kong, Sehi L'Yi, Erika Gabriela Ramirez-Hernandez, Serin Hong, Rosa Weidenspointner, Suyeon Song, Chase Caserta, Young Min Cho, Nora Kory bioRxiv (2025)
2024
Explaining Unfamiliar Genomics Data Visualizations to a Blind Individual through Transitions Thomas C. Smits, Sehi L'Yi**, Huyen N. Nguyen, Andrew Mar, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE VIS Workshop on Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz) (2024)
Using OpenKeyNav to Enhance the Keyboard-Accessibility of Web-based Data Visualization Tools Lawrence Weru, Sehi L'Yi**, Thomas C. Smits, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE VIS Workshop on Workshop on Accessible Data Visualization (AccessViz) (2024)
AltGosling: Automatic Generation of Text Descriptions for Accessible Genomics Data Visualization Thomas C Smits, Sehi L'Yi**, Andrew Patrick Mar, Nils Gehlenborg Bioinformatics (2024) Runner-Up Abstract Award at ISMB BioVis 2025
Cistrome Data Browser: integrated search, analysis, and visualization of chromatin data Len Taing, Ariaki Dandawate, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg, Myles Brown, Clifford A Meyer Nucleic Acids Research (2024) 52(D1), D61-D66
2023
Multi-view Design Patterns and Responsive Visualization for Genomics Data Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2023) 29(1), 559-569 26.5% acceptance rate
Chromoscope: interactive multiscale visualization for structural variation in human genomes Sehi L'Yi, Dominika Maziec, Victoria Stevens, Trevor Manz, Alexander Veit, Michele Berselli, Peter J Park, Dominik Głodzik, Nils Gehlenborg Nature Methods (2023) 20, 1834–1835
Cistrome Explorer: An Interactive Visual Analysis Tool for Large-Scale Epigenomic Data Sehi L'Yi, Mark S Keller, Ariaki Dandawate, Len Taing, Chen-Hao Chen, Myles Brown, Clifford A Meyer, Nils Gehlenborg Bioinformatics (2023) 39(2), btad018
The Role of Visualization in Genomics Data Analysis Workflows: The Interview Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Nils Gehlenborg Proc. VIS (2023) 28(1), 101-105 33.7% acceptance rate
GenoREC: A Recommendation System for Interactive Genomics Data Visualization Aditeya Pandey, Sehi L'Yi**, Qianwen Wang, Michelle A Borkin, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2023) 29(1), 570-580 26.5% acceptance rate IEEE InfoVis Best Poster Research Award
Enabling Multimodal User Interactions for Genomics Visualization Creation Qianwen Wang, Xiao Liu, Man Qing Liang, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg In Proc. IEEE VIS (2023) 111-115 33.7% acceptance rate
Drava: Concept-Driven Exploration of Small Multiples Using Interpretable Latent Vectors Qianwen Wang, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23) (2023) 833, 1-15 27.6% acceptance rate
Gos: a declarative library for interactive genomics visualization in Python Trevor Manz, Sehi L'Yi, Nils Gehlenborg Bioinformatics (2023) 39(1), btad050
Identifying shared genetic architecture between rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions: a phenome-wide association study with genetic risk scores Harrison G Zhang, Greg McDermott, Thany Seyok, Sicong Huang, Kumar Dahal, Sehi L'Yi, Clara Lea-Bonzel, Jacklyn Stratton, Dana Weisenfeld, Paul Monach, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Kun-Hsing Yu, Tianrun Cai, Jing Cui, Chuan Hong, Tianxi Cai, Katherine P Liao EBioMedicine, 2023 (2023) 92, 104581
Potential pitfalls in the use of real world data to study Long COVID Harrison Zhang, Jacqueline Honerlaw, Monika Maripuri, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Brendin Beaulieu-Jones, Huma Baig, Sehi L'Yi, Yuk-Lam Ho, Michele Morris, Vidul Ayakulangara Panickan, Xuan Wang, Griffin Weber, Katherine P Liao, Shyam Visweswaran, Bryce Tan, William Yuan, Nils Gehlenborg, Sumitra Muralidhar, Rachel Ramoni, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Isaac Kohane, Zongqi Xia, Kelly Cho, and Tianxi Cai Nature Medicine (2023) 29, 1040-1043
2022
Gosling: A Grammar-based Toolkit for Scalable and Interactive Genomics Data Visualization Sehi L'Yi, Qianwen Wang, Fritz Lekschas, Nils Gehlenborg IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2022) 28(1), 40-150 25.8% acceptance rate ISMB/ECCB BioVis Best Abstract Award
Changes in laboratory value improvement and mortality rates over the course of the pandemic: an international retrospective cohort study of hospitalised patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 Chuan Hong^‡, Harrison G Zhang^‡, Sehi L'Yi^‡, Griffin Weber, Paul Avillach, Bryce W Q Tan, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Nathan P Palmer, Alberto Malovini, Valentina Tibollo, Yuan Luo, Meghan R Hutch, Molei Liu, Florence Bourgeois, Riccardo Bellazzi, Luca Chiovato, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Trang T Le, Xuan Wang, William Yuan, Antoine Neuraz, Vincent Benoit, Bertrand Moal, Michele Morris, David A Hanauer, Sarah Maidlow, Kavishwar Wagholikar, Shawn Murphy, Hossein Estiri, Adeline Makoudjou, Patric Tippmann, Jeffery Klann, Robert W Follett, Nils Gehlenborg, Gilbert S Omenn, Zongqi Xia, Arianna Dagliati, Shyam Visweswaran, Lav P Patel, Danielle L Mowery, Emily R Schriver, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Daniela Zöller, Amelia L M Tan, Byorn W L Tan, Kee Yuan Ngiam, John H Holmes, Petra Schubert, Kelly Cho, Yuk-Lam Ho, Brett K Beaulieu-Jones, Miguel Pedrera-Jiménez, Noelia García-Barrio, Pablo Serrano-Balazote, Isaac Kohane, Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Andrew South, Gabriel A Brat, Tianxi Cai BMJ Open (2022) 12, 6
International comparisons of laboratory values from the 4CE collaborative to predict COVID-19 mortality Griffin M. Weber, Chuan Hong, Zongqi Xia, Nathan P. Palmer, Paul Avillach, Sehi L'Yi, Mark S. Keller, Shawn N. Murphy, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Arnaud Serret-Larmande, Antoine Neuraz, Gilbert S. Omenn, Shyam Visweswaran, Jeffrey G. Klann, Andrew M. South, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Mario Cannataro, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Riccardo Bellazzi, Giuseppe Agapito, Mario Alessiani, Bruce J. Aronow, Douglas S. Bell, Vincent Benoit, Florence T. Bourgeois, Luca Chiovato, Kelly Cho, Arianna Dagliati, Scott L. DuVall, Noelia García Barrio, David A. Hanauer, Yuk-Lam Ho, John H. Holmes, Richard W. Issitt, Molei Liu, Yuan Luo, Kristine E. Lynch, Sarah E. Maidlow, Alberto Malovini, Kenneth D. Mandl, Chengsheng Mao, Michael E. Matheny, Jason H. Moore, Jeffrey S. Morris, Michele Morris, Danielle L. Mowery, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Lav P. Patel, Miguel Pedrera-Jimenez, Rachel B. Ramoni, Emily R. Schriver, Petra Schubert, Pablo Serrano Balazote, Anastasia Spiridou, Amelia L. M. Tan, Byorn W. L. Tan, Valentina Tibollo, Carlo Torti, Enrico M. Trecarichi, Xuan Wang, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Isaac S. Kohane, Tianxi Cai, Gabriel A. Brat npj Digital Medicine (2022) 5, 74
International electronic health record-derived post-acute sequelae profiles of COVID-19 patients Harrison G. Zhang, Arianna Dagliati, Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad, Xin Xiong, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Zongqi Xia, Bryce W. Q. Tan, Paul Avillach, Gabriel A. Brat, Chuan Hong, Michele Morris, Shyam Visweswaran, Lav P. Patel, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, David A. Hanauer, John H. Holmes, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Florence T. Bourgeois, Sehi L'Yi, Sarah E. Maidlow, Bertrand Moal, Shawn N. Murphy, Zachary H. Strasser, Antoine Neuraz, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Gilbert S. Omenn, Andrea Prunotto, Lauren A. Dalvin, Jeffrey G. Klann, Petra Schubert, Fernando J. Sanz Vidorreta, Vincent Benoit, Guillaume Verdy, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Hossein Estiri, Yuan Luo, Alberto Malovini, Valentina Tibollo, Riccardo Bellazzi, Kelly Cho, Yuk-Lam Ho, Amelia L. M. Tan, Byorn W. L. Tan, Nils Gehlenborg, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Vianney Jouhet, Luca Chiovato, Bruce J. Aronow, Emma M. S. Toh, Wei Gen Scott Wong, Sara Pizzimenti, Kavishwar B. Wagholikar, Mauro Bucalo, The Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE), Tianxi Cai, Andrew M. South, Isaac S. Kohane, Griffin M. Weber npj Digital Medicine (2022) 5, 1
SurvMaximin: robust federated approach to transporting survival risk prediction models Xuan Wang, Harrison G Zhang, Xin Xiong, Chuan Hong, Griffin M Weber, Gabriel A Brat, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Yuan Luo, Rui Duan, Nathan P Palmer, Meghan R Hutch, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Riccardo Bellazzi, Luca Chiovato, Kelly Cho, Arianna Dagliati, Hossein Estiri, Noelia García-Barrio, Romain Griffier, David A Hanauer, Yuk-Lam Ho, John H Holmes, Mark S Keller, Jeffrey G Klann MEng, Sehi L'Yi, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Sarah E Maidlow, Adeline Makoudjou, Alberto Malovini, Bertrand Moal, Jason H Moore, Michele Morris, Danielle L Mowery, Shawn N Murphy, Antoine Neuraz, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Gilbert S Omenn, Lav P Patel, Miguel Pedrera-Jiménez, Andrea Prunotto, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Emily R Schriver, Petra Schubert, Pablo Serrano-Balazote, Andrew M South, Amelia L M Tan, Byorn W L Tan, Valentina Tibollo, Patric Tippmann, Shyam Visweswaran, Zongqi Xia, William Yuan, Daniela Zöller, Isaac S Kohane, Paul Avillach, Zijian Guo, Tianxi Cai, Consortium for Clinical Characterization of COVID-19 by EHR (4CE) Journal of Biomedical Informatics (2022) 134, 104176
2021
Comparative Layouts Revisited: Design Space, Guidelines, and Future Directions Sehi L'Yi, Jaemin Jo, Jinwook Seo IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (Proc. VIS) (2021) 27(2), 1525-1535 25.6% acceptance rate
International Changes in COVID-19 Clinical Trajectories Across 315 Hospitals and 6 Countries: Retrospective Cohort Study Griffin M Weber^‡, Harrison G Zhang^‡, Sehi L'Yi^‡, Clara-Lea Bonzel, Chuan Hong, Paul Avillach, Alba Gutiérrez-Sacristán, Nathan P Palmer, Amelia Li Min Tan, Xuan Wang, William Yuan, Nils Gehlenborg, Anna Alloni, Danilo F Amendola, Antonio Bellasi, Riccardo Bellazzi, Michele Beraghi, Mauro Bucalo, Luca Chiovato, Kelly Cho, Arianna Dagliati, Hossein Estiri, Robert W Follett, Noelia García Barrio, David A Hanauer, Darren W Henderson, Yuk-Lam Ho, John H Holmes, Meghan R Hutch, Ramakanth Kavuluru, Katie Kirchoff, Jeffrey G Klann, Ashok K Krishnamurthy, Trang T Le, Molei Liu, Ne Hooi Will Loh, Sara Lozano-Zahonero, Yuan Luo, Sarah Maidlow, Adeline Makoudjou, Alberto Malovini, Marcelo Roberto Martins, Bertrand Moal, Michele Morris, Danielle L Mowery, Shawn N Murphy, Antoine Neuraz, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Marina P Okoshi, Gilbert S Omenn, Lav P Patel, Miguel Pedrera Jiménez, Robson A Prudente, Malarkodi Jebathilagam Samayamuthu, Fernando J Sanz Vidorreta, Emily R Schriver, Petra Schubert, Pablo Serrano Balazote, Byorn Wl Tan, Suzana E Tanni, Valentina Tibollo, Shyam Visweswaran, Kavishwar B Wagholikar, Zongqi Xia, Daniela Zöller, Consortium For Clinical Characterization Of COVID-19 By EHR (4CE), Isaac S Kohane, Tianxi Cai, Andrew M South, Gabriel A Brat* Journal of Medical Internet Research (2021) 23(10):e31400
ProReveal: Progressive Visual Analytics with Safeguards Jaemin Jo, Sehi L'Yi, Jinwook Seo IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) (2021) 27(7), 3109-3122
2020
International Electronic Health Record-Derived COVID-19 Clinical Course Profiles: the 4CE Consortium Gabriel A. Brat, Griffin M. Weber, Nils Gehlenborg, Paul Avillach, Nathan P. Palmer, Luca Chiovato, James Cimino, Lemuel R. Waitman, Gilbert S. Omenn, Alberto Malovini, Jason H. Moore, Brett K. Beaulieu-Jones, Valentina Tibollo, Shawn N. Murphy, Sehi L'Yi, Mark S. Keller, Riccardo Bellazzi, David A. Hanauer, Arnaud Serret-Larmande, Alba Gutierrez-Sacristan, John J. Holmes, Douglas S. Bell, Kenneth D. Mandl, Robert W. Follett, Jeffrey G. Klann, Douglas A. Murad, Luigia Scudeller, Mauro Bucalo, Katie Kirchoff, Jean Craig, Jihad Obeid, Vianney Jouhet, Romain Griffier, Sebastien Cossin, Bertrand Moal, Lav P. Patel, Antonio Bellasi, Hans U. Prokosch, Detlef Kraska, Piotr Sliz, Amelia L. M. Tan, Kee Yuan Ngiam, Alberto Zambelli, Danielle L. Mowery, Emily Schiver, Batsal Devkota, Robert L. Bradford, Mohamad Daniar, Christel Daniel, Vincent Benoit, Romain Bey, Nicolas Paris, Patricia Serre, Nina Orlova, Julien Dubiel, Martin Hilka, Anne Sophie Jannot, Stephane Breant, Judith Leblanc, Nicolas Griffon, Anita Burgun, Melodie Bernaux, Arnaud Sandrin, Elisa Salamanca, Sylvie Cormont, Thomas Ganslandt, Tobias Gradinger, Julien Champ, Martin Boeker, Patricia Martel, Loic Esteve, Alexandre Gramfort, Olivier Grisel, Damien Leprovost, Thomas Moreau, Gael Varoquaux, Jill-Jênn Vie, Demian Wassermann, Arthur Mensch, Charlotte Caucheteux, Christian Haverkamp, Guillaume Lemaitre, Silvano Bosari, Ian D. Krantz, Andrew South, Tianxi Cai, Isaac S. Kohane npj Digital Medicine (2020) 3(109)
2019
Toward Understanding Representation Methods in Visualization Recommendations through Scatterplot Construction Tasks Sehi L'Yi, Youli Chang, DongHwa Shin, Jinwook Seo Computer Graphics Forum (Proc. EuroVis) (2019) 29(1), 570-580 31.2% acceptance rate
2018
Visual Analytics for Comparing Multiple Clustering Results of Bioinformatics Data Sehi L'Yi, Bongkyung Ko, DongHwa Shin, Young-Joon Cho, Jaeyong Lee, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo The Wiley Handbook of Human Computer Interaction (2018) 945-966 (Book Chapter)
2017
miRTarVis+: Web-based interactive visual analytics tool for microRNA target predictions Sehi L'Yi, Daekyoung Jung, Minsik Oh, Bohyoung Kim, Robert J. Freishtat, Mamta Giri, Eric Hoffman, Jinwook Seo Methods (2017) 27(7), 3109-3122
TouchPivot: Blending WIMP & Post-WIMP Interfaces for Data Exploration on Tablet Devices Jaemin Jo, Sehi L'Yi, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’17) (2017) 2660-2671 25% acceptance rate
2016
CloakingNote: A Novel Desktop Interface for Subtle Writing Using Decoy Texts Sehi L'Yi, Jaemin Jo, Kyle Koh, Bongshin Lee, Jinwook Seo In Proceedings of the 29th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST ’16) (2016) 473-481 21% acceptance rate
2015
XCluSim: A Visual Analytics Tool for Interactively Comparing Multiple Clustering Results of Bioinformatics Data Sehi L'Yi, Bongkyung Ko, DongHwa Shin, Young-Joon Cho, Jaeyong Lee, Bohyoung Kim, Jinwook Seo BMC Bioinformatics (2015) 16 Suppl 11: S5
Understanding Users’ Touch Behavior on Large Mobile Touch-Screens and Assisted Targeting by Tilting Gesture Youli Chang, Sehi L'Yi, Kyle Koh, Jinwook Seo In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15) (2015) 1499-1508 25% acceptance rate

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