BIOLITMAP: a web-based geolocated, temporal and thematic visualization of the evolution of bioinformatics publications.

Motivation: The fast growth of bioinformatics adds a significant difficulty to assess the contribution, geographical and thematic distribution of the research publications.

Results: To help researchers, grant agencies and general public to assess the progress in bioinformatics, we have developed BIOLITMAP, a web-based geolocation system that allows an easy and sensible exploration of the publications by institution, year and topic.

Availability And Implementation: BIOLITMAP is available at http://socialanalytics.bsc.es/biolitmap and the sources have been deposited at https://github.com/inab/BIOLITMAP.

Supplementary Information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.