Extreme Venn Diagram help

[Raswan]

Trying to find an online generator for a Venn diagram that can handle 8 lists of elements and display them graphically in the most efficient way. Each list has between 2 and 9 items.

Alternately, I'd be happy to be pointed toward a technical step-by-step guide that explains how to turn my own lists into something approximating a venn diagram of this size.

This is the best I've found so far, but it can only handle 4.

http://bioinfogp.cnb.csic.es/tools/venny/

Thanks in advance for any help!!

Raswan

 

[Gibsons]

We've wanted to do something like this as well for some gene expression data. But we decided that Venn diagrams with more than 4 sets were too confusing. They get overly complicated, you end up having to trace the lines back and forth to figure out what's what.

I guess this doesn't really help, sorry.

edit: Here's an 11 way diagram. Looks awesome, but it would have to be interactive to be useful I think.

 

[TuxDave]

We've wanted to do something like this as well for some gene expression data. But we decided that Venn diagrams with more than 4 sets were too confusing. They get overly complicated, you end up having to trace the lines back and forth to figure out what's what.

I guess this doesn't really help, sorry.

edit: Here's an 11 way diagram. Looks awesome, but it would have to be interactive to be useful I think.

Impressive. I had trouble trying to come up with a 4-way diagram without "cheating" and looking at the link.

To the OP, I would think that an 8-way venn diagram is near useless. At that level, you can see which elements appear in the same set of lists, but it would be a headache to figure out which lists that were.

When you get to that level, maybe a simple table would be best (row = element, column = list)

 

[DSF]

Can you give a clearer idea of what this is going to be used for?

 

[uclabachelor]

Is there a reason why all 8 sets have to be on the same venn diagram?

I would just hash out the relationship between any two given set, giving you a total of 27 venn diagrams.