Scaffold Hunter is a Java-based open source tool for the visual analysis of data sets with a focus on data from the life sciences, aiming at an intuitive access to large and complex data sets. The tool offers a variety of views, e.g. graph, dendrogram, and plot view, as well as analysis methods, e.g. for clustering and classification. Scaffold Hunter has its origin in drug discovery, which is still one of the main application areas, and is evolved into a reusable open source platform for a wider range of applications. The tool offers flexible plugin and data integration mechanisms to allow adaption to new fields and data sets, e.g. from medical image retrieval. Scaffold Hunter is used worldwide in research, both academic and commercial, and for teaching at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany, and the University of Sydney, Australia.
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The Scaffold Hunter project was initiated by Stefan Wetzel and Karsten Klein, a first version of Scaffold
Hunter was implemented by a student project group (PG504) at TU Dortmund under their supervision.
For version 2.x, many parts of it were improved, extended, and rewritten by the student project group PG552
under the supervision of Carsten Gutwenger, Nils Kriege, and Karsten Klein at TU Dortmund.
We would like to thank the members of PG504, Anke Arndt, Vanessa Bembenek, Ambia Ben Ahmed, Philipp
Büdenbender, Nils Kriege, Adalbert Gorecki, Sergej Rakov, Michael Rex, Gebhard Schrader, Henning Wagner,
André Wiesniewski, and Cengizhan Yücel, and the members of PG552, Bernhard Dick, Thorsten Flügel,
Henning Garus, Michael Hesse, Philipp Kopp, Philipp Lewe, Dominic Sacré, Till Schäfer, and Thomas Schmitz,
for their contribution and enthusiasm in creating the prototype application.
The final reports of PG504 and PG552 can be retrieved here
and here, respectively.
