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PitchInteractiveInc / Phinch

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.
http://phinch.org/
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Taxonomy bar chart randomizes sample order, even after sorting in parser window #22

Open hollybik opened 10 years ago

hollybik commented 10 years ago

Most users will need to sort their samples alphabetically in the taxonomy bar chart window - right now the ordering in the parser window is not preserved, it looks like samples are being displayed randomly. This is a problem for studies with large numbers of samples, since it's very time consuming to sort manually.

dlallias commented 10 years ago

This is a major drawback. I've added a phinchID column into my metadatafile. I could sort by phinchID on the data page; but as soon as I moved to the gallery page, my samples were sorted by their Biom Sample ID, which means that even though I labelled my samples 1 to 48, they were displayed on the histograms randomly. Which is annoying. The way out would be to re-order them manually, but this has to be done for each taxonomic level (phylum, class etc) so is very time consuming.