Cubism with genomic data (or non-timeseries data)

Question

I'd like to hear your thoughts on what would it take to make cubism work with non timeseries data, concretely, genomic data.

These type of data has a locus (a chromosome and coordinates within that chromosome) instead of a timestamp:

chrm1 145678123 value
chrm12 45345 value
chrmX 4535 value
....

What option do you think is best, hacking cubism's core to allow for these type of data (or any type of data for that matter) or spawning a new project all together?

UPDATE: I decided to implement a modified version of cubism for DNA. I call it DNAism and you can find it here. Take a look and let me know what you think.

-drd

Answer 1

Cubism is probably not the right kind of library for this task. You're going to have to modify the library in a pretty significant way. Instead of doing that I'd recommend you use the d3.horizon plugin so that you can gain a lot more control by creating custom scales.

Hope this answers your question.