VAMP currently offers several types of visualization that can be displayed in the main frame: (i) Profile View, (ii) Karyotype View, (iii) Dot Plot View, (iv) List View. These views all allow simultaneous visualization of several profiles (the only limitation is the memory size of the computer running VAMP, or more precisely, the memory allocated to the Java virtual machine (see section 2.1): for example with an 800 Mb Java virtual machine memory, 700 microarrays (each with 3500 probes) can be loaded simultaneously).
Whatever view is chosen, the profiles can be represented in Genomic mode or Chromosome mode. The Genomic mode simply depicts the profiles along all the concatenated chromosomes. It is the most usual representation, and allows comparison of profiles from different samples or comparison of different types of profiles from a given sample. The Chromosome mode is similar to the Genomic mode except that it only displays one particular chromosome. It is also possible to merge several chromosomes and to represent those chromosomes useful for the study.