The invention is directed to a tool for visualizing relationships between
and among data. It uses existing relational databases, and provides the
means to view these databases in order to reveal degrees of relatedness
between and among various data clusters. An illustrative use of said
database tool is for analyzing genomics data. A test platform for this
tool used EST data for the wheat tribe Triticeae, but can easily be
extended for applications where other sequence assembly procedures are
implemented, particularly those which use alphanumeric characters to
represent data. The implementation of algorithms to manipulate the data
points for investigative functions may be adapted to serve other
applications.