"Sub-cellular-localization-in-cell" is a component to visualize biological cells and highlight by a user selected sub-cellular compartments in a way that they stand out from the un-selected ones.
Input data:
- Input data file should be either a ".txt" or ".csv" file.
- Text file must contain proteins of only one type of cell.
- File’s first line should contain cell type (i.e: eukaryota, archea, bacteria)
- File's second line should contain Score (i.e: 0-100). Note: Minimum score should be zero.
- File's third line should contain columns description (i.e: Protein Id, Score, Localization).
- User’s file can have more than 3 columns but additional columns will not be executed.
Supported Web browsers:
- Google Chrome
Click here to see this component in action.
Implementation:
- First, all the cell compartments were identified by the paths that were marked using the GIMP image editor.
- The images of the different cell compartments were saved in svg file format.
- Using the information from the user's input file, the number of proteins present in each compartment were determined.
- Each compartment was highlighted using a localization color scale, which was obtained by converting the number of proteins present in each localization into a percentage and matched to a color.
- We included a table to display all the proteins present in each cell compartment and their scores.
- Upon 'mouseover' over a compartment, a tooltip was displayed, which shows the proteins present in that cell compartment, and the score (confidence) of the protein.
- The proteins displayed in the tooltip were made clickable so that the cell image could be updated to reflect the scores of the protein in all the cell compartments.
- Finally, the cell compartments were highlighted using a score color scale, which was obtained by mapping the score of a protein in each cell compartment to a color.
Description of color scale for localization and score:
Localization: The lightest color represents the minimum number of proteins in a cell compartment, in contrast, the darkest color represents the maximum number of proteins within a cell compartment. These values are also expressed in percentages where the lightest color matches with 0% and the darkest color with 100%.
Score(confidence): The color scale for score (confidence) is based on percentages from 0 to 100 % where 0 means low confidence and 100 means accurate confidence.
All contributions are welcome.
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This software is licensed under the Apache 2 license, quoted below.
Copyright (c) 2015, 3Biogirls.
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