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heatmap-scatter-dash

A heatmap-scatterplot using Dash by plotly. From the commandline it can be started on localhost or AWS, or it can be run from the Refinery GUI.

v0.1.2-screenshot

Getting Started

Docker

If you have Docker installed, and data available at public URLs, this is the easiest way to get started:

$ V=v0.1.5
$ FIXTURES=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/refinery-platform/heatmap-scatter-dash/$V/fixtures/good/data
$ docker run --name heatmap --detach --publish 8888:80 \
  -e "FILE_URLS=$FIXTURES/counts.csv $FIXTURES/counts-copy.csv.gz" \
  mccalluc/heatmap_scatter_dash:$V

Then visit http://localhost:8888.

If multiple URLs are desired, use spaces in the value of the environment variables, as in the example. Besides providing count data, you can also specify DIFF_URLS for differential expression data and META_URLS for metadata.

From Source

Check out the project and install dependencies:

  # Requires Python3:
$ python --version
$ git clone https://github.com/refinery-project/heatmap-scatter-dash.git
$ cd heatmap-scatter-dash
$ pip install -r requirements-freeze.txt

Then run it locally:

$ cd context

  # Generate a random matrix:
$ ./app_runner.py --demo 100 10 5

  # Load data from disk:
$ ./app_runner.py --files ../fixtures/good/data/counts.csv \
                  --diffs ../fixtures/good/data/stats-* \
                  --meta ../fixtures/good/data/metadata.csv

and visit http://localhost:8050/.

Input file format

For input, a variety of tabular data formats are supported: CSV, TSV, GCT, or any of those zipped. In the example below, r1, r2, etc. are genes and c1, c2, etc. are conditions. Optionally, name1, name2, etc. are human-readable names for the genes,

gene c1 c2 c3 c4 code1 code2
r1 1 2 3 4 a b
r2 5 6 7 8 c b
r3 3 5 7 9 c d

More examples are available.

Testing

One bash script, test.sh, handles all our tests:

  • Python unit tests
  • Python style tests (flake8 and isort)
  • Cypress.io interaction tests
  • Docker container build and launch

A few more dependencies are required for this to work locally:

  # Install Docker: https://www.docker.com/community-edition
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
$ npm install cypress --save-dev

Release

Successful Github tags and PRs will prompt Travis to push the built image to Dockerhub. For a new version number:

$ git tag v0.0.x && git push origin --tags

Help

There are a few notes on implementation decisions and lessons learned.

The online help can be previewed to get a better sense of the operational details.

Command line usage:

$ python app_runner.py -h
usage: app_runner.py [-h] (--demo ROWS COLS META | --files CSV [CSV ...])
                     [--diffs CSV [CSV ...]] [--metas CSV [CSV ...]]
                     [--most_variable_rows ROWS] [--html_table]
                     [--truncate_table N] [--port PORT]
                     [--p_value_re RE [RE ...]] [--log_fold_re RE [RE ...]]
                     [--profile [DIR]] [--html_error] [--debug]
                     [--api_prefix PREFIX]

Light-weight visualization for differential expression

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --demo ROWS COLS META
                        Generates a random matrix with the number of rows and
                        columns specified. In addition, "META" determines the
                        number of mock metadata fields to associate with each
                        column.
  --files CSV [CSV ...]
                        Read CSV or TSV files. Identifiers should be in the
                        first column and multiple files will be joined on
                        identifier. Gzip files are also handled.
  --diffs CSV [CSV ...]
                        Read CSV or TSV files containing differential
                        expression data.
  --metas CSV [CSV ...]
                        Read CSV or TSV files containing metadata: Row labels
                        should match column headers of the raw data.
  --most_variable_rows ROWS
                        For the heatmap, we first sort by row variance, and
                        then take the number of rows specified here. Defaults
                        to 500.
  --html_table          The default is to use pre-formatted text for the
                        tables. HTML tables are available, but are twice as
                        slow.
  --truncate_table N    Truncate the table to the first N rows. Table
                        rendering is often a bottleneck. Default is not to
                        truncate.
  --port PORT           Specify a port to run the server on. Defaults to 8050.

Refinery/Developer:
  These parameters will probably only be of interest to developers, and/or
  they are used when the tool is embedded in Refinery.

  --p_value_re RE [RE ...]
                        Regular expressions which column headers will be
                        checked against to identify p-values. Defaults to
                        ['p.*value', 'padj', 'fdr'].
  --log_fold_re RE [RE ...]
                        Regular expressions which column headers will be
                        checked against to identify fold-change values.
                        Defaults to ['\\blog[^a-z]'].
  --profile [DIR]       Saves a profile for each request in the specified
                        directory, "/tmp" by default. Profiles can be viewed
                        with snakeviz.
  --html_error          If there is a configuration error, instead of exiting,
                        start the server and display an error page.
  --debug               Run the server in debug mode: The server will restart
                        in response to any code changes, and some hidden
                        fields will be shown.
  --api_prefix PREFIX   Prefix for API URLs.