What's it?
In this work, we present a novel software of HemI (Heatmap Illustrator, version 1.0) for experimentalists, to prepare publication-quality figures of heatmap.The HemI is written in JAVA 1.6 (J2SE 6.0) and packaged with Install4j 4.0.8. Thus, the HemI 1.0 can be easily installed on a computer. Then we developed several packages to support three major operating systems (OS), including Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac. The Windows XP/7, Ubuntu, Apple Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) were chosen to test the stability of HemI 1.0 for Windows and Linux systems, a Java Runtime Environment 6 (JRE6) package of Oracle should be installed first or you can choose install package which include JRE.
How to use it?
First, the numerical data in one of the three file formats, including Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (.xls), Tab Separated Value (TSV) or Comma Separated Value (CSV) can be loaded through clicking on the “LOAD” button of the main interface. Then, users can select the numerical data area for visualizing a heatmap with mouse-dragging or holding-SHIFT-then-click manipulations. The titles for X-axis and Y-axis can be specified by inputting number of row and column in the data sheet. For convenience, an “Auto Fill” button was provided, while the first column and row were regarded as the titles of Y-axis and X-axis, respectively. A heatmap will be automatically generated after clicking on the finish button.
Institute
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学)
Author
Wankun Deng(邓万锟),Yu Xue(薛宇)
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