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Plot Viewer

The SPARC Portal's plot viewer provides a web preview of tabular data.

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To navigate through to the Plot Viewer:

  1. Click Data & Models from the main menu.
  2. All the datasets are listed under the Datasets tab.
  3. Enter a search term to search for a dataset, for example DOI: 10.26275/z6jn-j5tx: Transcriptional diversity of single neurons in the porcine right atrial ganglionic plexus (RAGP). Click the Search button.
  4. Choose the dataset you want to explore by clicking on the dataset title.
Figure 1: SPARC Find Data page with annotations illustrating how a search for a dataset with a plot may be performed.

Figure 1: SPARC Find Data page with annotations illustrating how a search for a dataset with a plot may be performed.

On the Dataset's page:

  1. Select the Gallery tab to view thumbnails of the microscopy image data accompanied by plot, segmentation, anatomical scaffolds, and flatmaps for the current dataset.
  2. Click on View Plot.
Figure 2: Section of a dataset page showing the Gallery tab, with annotations illustrating how to navigate to viewing a plot from the dataset.

Figure 2: Section of a dataset page showing the Gallery tab, with annotations illustrating how to navigate to viewing a plot from the dataset.

Use the following controls to interact with the plot viewer:

  • Click and drag will create a zoom window to look at a sub-part of the plot.
  • Zoom in and zoom out of the model by scrolling with the mouse wheel.
  • Filter the x and y axis content with the selection chooser elements and the Filter plot button.
  • Manually modify the zoom state with the zoom buttons. The buttons zoom in, zoom out, and reset the zoom.
Figure 3: (1) Main plot window, click and drag to zoom to area, middle mouse zooms in and out. (2) Select elements to choose to view only selected row or column values, `Filter plot` button activates current selection. (3) Manual zoom controls: zoom in, out, and reset.

Figure 3: (1) Main plot window, click and drag to zoom to area, middle mouse zooms in and out. (2) Select elements to choose to view only selected row or column values, Filter plot button activates current selection. (3) Manual zoom controls: zoom in, out, and reset.

Below the plot viewer, file-level metadata is provided and a Download file button to download the file.

Figure 4: Plot viewer summary table, annotated illustrating the `Download` file button.

Figure 4: Plot viewer summary table, annotated illustrating the Download file button.

Updated about 1 month ago