Next-Generation Clustered Heat Maps

About this Class

Clustered heat maps are widely used for visualizing patterns in molecular profiling data. But traditional, static heat maps have significant limitations when applied to large datasets (1000s of elements per axis).

Presented in this talk will be the Next-Generation Clustered Heat Map (NG-CHM) system of highly interactive clustered heat maps for addressing these limitations. Also provided will be all the capabilities expected of a state-of-the-art heat map system.

NG-CHMs enable the user to navigate large omic databases, zooming to drill down on detailed patterns, link out to dozens of external metadata resources, produce high-resolution graphics, and preserve all metadata needed to reproduce the map at a later time. They have proved valuable in many large-scale NIH projects. Data types covered by NG-CHMs have included essentially all the phenotypic genotypic characteristics currently measured at the DNA, RNA, protein, and metabolite levels, in both bulk and single-cell studies.
 
NG-CHMs have been used by thousands of individual researchers and have been incorporated into a variety of public websites. The presentation will conclude with a brief summary of future plans.

For questions contact Daoud Meerzaman or Kayla Strauss.