Plots

To add or customise plot select "Plots" menu option.

Figure 1. List of plots available for user

Adding new plot

To add a new plot click on "Create" button and complete the form with the name, the title and the assembly of the new plot.

Figure 2. "Create plot" form

After clicking "Create" modified form will be displayed.

Figure 3. "Plot" form

Adding new track

Each datasource can be displayed in browser as a separate track. To add new track to the plot click on "Add track" button.

Figure 4. "Create track" form

Then choose the datasource from the select list of available datasources. You have to complete other fields of the form including:

After filling the form click "Create". Then form complemented with fields specific for type of datasource (BED3, BED6, BED9, BED12, BEDGraph or Hi-C) will be shown. Detail description of each field is presented in the table below.

Figure 5. "Create plot" form

List of track properties

Name Datasource type Values Description
Title All Text Name of the track
No. All Integer Track number. Used to order tracks in the plot
Height All Integer Height of the track. If none default size is used
Column All Integer Column number
Color All BED, BEDGaph Color in hex RGB without leading hash Color of feature
Border color All BED, BEDGraph Color in hex RGB without leading hash Border color of feature
Colormap BED6, BED9, BED12, Hi-C List of Python Matplotlib Colormaps Colormap used to display values from 'score' column of BED datasource entry, or to display frequencies of Hi-C map
Minimum value of colormap BED6, BED9, BED12, Hi-C Number Minimum value of colormap
Maximum value of colormap BED6, BED9, BED12, Hi-C Number Maximum value of colormap
BEDGraph Style BEDGraph Line, Line with borders, Area, Area with border Available options:
  • Line — data will be displayed as line chart
  • Line with borders — data will be displayed as line chart with borders
  • Area — data will be displayed as area chart
  • Area with border — data will be displayed as area chart with borders
BED Style All BED Tiles, With Introns, Flybase, Domains, Arcs Available options:
  • Tiles — each entry will be displayed as tile
  • With Introns — each entry will be displayed as gene with introns (available only form BED12 fromat)
  • Flybase — each entry will be displayed in Flybase format (available only form BED12 fromat)
  • Domains — each entry will be displayed as triangle with one vertex lying in the middle of entry's coordinates
  • Arcs — each entry will be displayed as semiellipse passing through coordinates of entry
Display All BED Stacked, Collapsed, Interlaced Available options:
  • Stacked — tiles will be displayed stacked
  • Collapsed — tiles will be displayed collapsed (all shown in one line)
  • Interlaced — tiles will be displayed interlaced (shown in two lines alternately)
Print option All BED Tiles, Vertical Lines, Tiles and Vertical Lines Available options:
  • Tiles — coordinates of entries from BED datasource will be displayed as tiles on the track
  • Vertical Lines — coordinates of entries from BED datasource will be displayed as vertical dotted lines on all tracks of the plot
  • Tiles and Vertical Lines — coordinates of entries from BED datasource will be displayed as tiles on the track and as as vertical dotted lines on all tracks of the plot
Labels All BED Yes, No If value is set to 'Yes' labels for each feature will be printed using 'name' column value of BED
Name filter BED6, BED9, BED12 Yes, No If set to 'Yes' user can filter entries from BED datasource by 'name' column value
Transform Hi-C none, log1p, log, -log Available options:
  • none — values of Hi-C matrix are displayed without any transformation
  • log1p — values of Hi-C matrix are increased by 1 and then log transformed
  • log — values of Hi-C matrix are log transformed
  • -log — values of Hi-C matrix are log transformed and multiplyed by -1
Domains datasource Hi-C List of data in BED format (public and private for user) Coordinates of the entries from the chosen BED datasource will be used to draw domians on Hi-C track
Inverted Hi-C Yes, No If set to 'Yes' Hi-C matrix will be displayed inverted

Customising plot

To customize plot click on plot list to edit the plot. Then click to customize specific track.

Figure 6. "Create plot" form