Phinch is an open-source framework for visualizing biological data, funded by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation. This project represents an interdisciplinary collaboration between Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio in Oakland, CA, and biological researchers at UC Riverside.
In the Help documentation on the web site, there is some redundant wording
"If you want to visualize biological data currently formatted as a tab-delimited text file (e.g. the style of OTU tables produced by older versions of QIIME, the style of OTU tables produced by older versions of QIIME, or any other type of genomic data that can be reprsented in matrix format)"
"the style of OTU tables ..." is repeated twice
The whole paragraph on using Phinch with older versions of QIIME is repeated at the bottom.
It would help to know what "older versions" meant. Before version 1.7, 1.4?
Also, with the existence of the new BIOM format, which I know QIIME isn't using yet, it might also be helpful in the documentation to specify the BIOM format that Phinch supports.
In the Help documentation on the web site, there is some redundant wording
"If you want to visualize biological data currently formatted as a tab-delimited text file (e.g. the style of OTU tables produced by older versions of QIIME, the style of OTU tables produced by older versions of QIIME, or any other type of genomic data that can be reprsented in matrix format)"
The whole paragraph on using Phinch with older versions of QIIME is repeated at the bottom.
It would help to know what "older versions" meant. Before version 1.7, 1.4?
Also, with the existence of the new BIOM format, which I know QIIME isn't using yet, it might also be helpful in the documentation to specify the BIOM format that Phinch supports.
Thanks for a nice tool!