# Basel researchers release Bonsai for visualizing high-dimensional biology data

_Published Friday, August 21, 2026 at 7:06 AM EDT · Science · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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University of Basel researchers have released Bonsai, software that represents high-dimensional biological data as a branching tree rather than a two-dimensional map. The team says branch distances reflect relationships in the original high-dimensional space. In simulated and real single-cell RNA-sequencing data, the researchers report that Bonsai more accurately reconstructed developmental pathways and identified similar cells than existing methods. Applying it to human blood-cell data recovered known cell relationships and identified a reported natural-killer-cell subtype with a different lineage signature.

## Sources

- [Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026-08-unseen-tool-visualizes-hidden-complex.html)

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