Ben fry one of the co creators of processing a grpahical visualziation app gave a great talk at the recent Ignite Boston event organzied by Oreilly.

He showed a few examples of its power and relative ease of use . Specially breathtaking was its use in visualizing the HapMap data including the one featured on the Nature cover above.

Ben is currently working on a Book called Visualizing data which is available as a rough cut through Oreilly.

I definitely plan to start playing around with the processing environment. As Euan Addie said on the Natures Nascent blog The way we present genomic and proteomic data on the web sucks and apps like processing are a great step forward.