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To the Editor—Biologists are important stakeholders in genomic data, both as data generators and as users of genomic data resources. Tools to efficiently visualize and analyze multi-omic data are increasingly important to ensure accessibility and usability of genomic data for all biologists1. We developed the gEAR portal (http://umgear. org) to enable these functionalities (Fig. 1). The development of visualization tools for multi-omic biological data has not kept pace with the generation of transcriptomic and epigenetic data. Repositories allow users to deposit large datasets, but do little in the way of analysis. Therefore, the user must download the raw data and perform analyses locally, which is both time-consuming and out of the reach of many biologists2. While some web-based resources are now available to facilitate multi-omic data analysis3, these resources are typically designed for specific domains, do not …