HemI: A Toolkit for Illustrating Heatmaps

Recent high-throughput techniques have generated a flood of biological data in all aspects. The transformation and visualization of multi-dimensional and numerical gene or protein expression data in a single heatmap can provide a concise but comprehensive presentation of molecular dynamics under different conditions. In this work, we developed an easy-to-use tool named HemI (Heat map Illustrator), which can visualize either gene or protein expression data in heatmaps. Additionally, the heatmaps can be recolored, rescaled or rotated in a customized manner. In addition, HemI provides multiple clustering strategies for analyzing the data. Publication-quality figures can be exported directly. We propose that HemI…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 31171263, 81272578, 2012CB910101, 2014DFB30020, J1103514
• CP
  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

  Award: 2014M550392
• NK
  National Key Research and Development Program of China

  Award: 2014DFB30020
• FR
  Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities