“…MetaViz, an R and NodeJs-based platform, provides a novel navigation tool for exploring hierarchical feature data that is coupled with multiple data visualizations including heatmaps, stacked bar charts, and scatter plots. It also supports a flexible plugin framework, enabling users to develop and add their own visualization tools ( Vázquez-Ingelmo et al, 2022 ). Finally, MetaSee is a Java-based platform, offering the interactive visualization of metagenomic samples of interest at multiple levels (global view, phylogenetic view, sample view and taxa view), and an Application Programming Interface for the development of new analysis and visualization plugins ( Song et al, 2012 ).…”