visualizing high-throughput microbial community data

 Emperor is an interactive next generation tool for the analysis,
 visualization and understanding of high throughput microbial
 ecology datasets.
 .
 Due to its tailor-made graphical user interface, delving into a new
 dataset to elucidate the patterns hidden in the data, has never been
 easier. Emperor brings a rich set of customizations and modifications
 that can be integrated into any QIIME or scikit-bio compliant dataset;
 with lightweight data files and hardware accelerated graphics,
 constitutes itself as the state of the art for analyzing N-dimensional
 data using principal coordinates analysis.