2.4.6 Report menu

Various reports summarizing gene or sample data may be generated and appear in popup tables. These include:

Samples Reports menu

Figure 2.4.6 Reports menu. You may create either dynamic or tab-delimited text reports of either Samples or of subsets of genes.



These may be presented as interactive dynamic tables as well as scrollable text windows capable of being exported to Excel. If Web DB access is enabled, clicking on an entry will bring up a Web browser with access to GenBank data. If the report contains Clone ID as one of the fields, you can click on it to have it define that gene as the current gene and highlight it in the microarray image or scatter plot (if it is being used). The reports are divided into two types - those dealing with lists of arrays (i.e. the sample experimental condition) and those dealing with lists of genes.

The Report menu includes:

2.4.6.1 Array report menu - hybridized samples global data

You may generate reports of sample array information. The first two menu selections contain descriptive information about specific hybridized microarrays samples. The "Extra Samples info" contains quantitative and extra descriptive information (if available for your database).

The "Samples vs Samples correlation coefficients" computes the correlation coefficients in an upper diagonal matrix for the current set of Filtered genes showing HP samples similarity. Then entries are of the following form where HP:1 and HP:2 correspond to samples listed in the field names of the table and the data is the intensity values using the current normalization method.

  rSq=0.748, n=1656, HP:1(mn+-sd)=(28991+-19564), HP:2(mn+-sd)=(5044+-9766)

The "Calibration DNA summary" table contains the computed means, std-dev, and computed normalization scale factor for all active hybridized samples. The scale factors are used if the 'Calibration DNA' normalization is used.

You must set the Web access checkbox if you want to click on a blue hyperlink in the resulting report to access an associated Web database.


A) Scrollable dynamic samples report

B) Scrollable dynamic samples report with clickable Web links in blue

C) Scrollable dynamic report of samples vs samples correlation using current data Filtered genes

Figure 2.4.6.1 Hybridized samples dynamic Report windows. A) Samples Info report. B) Sample Web links. Clicking on a blue hypertext link brings up the corresponding genomic Web database entry in a separate Web browser window if the Web access is enabled. The tab-delimited version of the same reports (not shown) may be cut and then pasted into other programs such as an Excel spreadsheet. C) HP vs HP correlation table on genes passing the data Filter for all samples in the HP-=E list.



2.4.6.2 Gene reports menu

You may generate gene reports with various additional options. You must set the Web access checkbox if you want to click on a blue hyperlink in the resulting report to access an associated Web database. In addition, specialized gene reports may be generated from some of the cluster plot command windows. These include lists of genes sorted by cluster (K-means cluster #), by hierarchical cluster order, by similarity to a gene, etc. The mean cluster expression values may be reported for K-means clustering.

2.4.6.2.1 Filtered gene reports menu

You may generate gene reports of Filtered genes with various additional presentation options. In the highest/lowest N genes, N defaults to 100 and is set by (Report | Table format | Set max # genes in highest/lowest report) command.

If Cy3/Cy5 ratio data is being analyzed, then the Highest (Lowest) F1/F2 entries become


A) Scrollable dynamic report of 50 nameed genes sorted by HP-X/HP-Y ratio

B) Same report as tab-delimited text area that may be cut and pasted to 
Excel or saved as text file for export

Figure 2.4.6.2 Gene Report windows of 50 named genes with highest HP-X/HP-Y 'set' ratios. A) Dynamic gene report of 50 genes with highest HP-X/HP-Y 'set' ratios. A similar report may be generated for the lowest ratios or for single HP-X/HP-Y samples. This type of report may be generated for the highest or lowest Zdiff values when the Zscore normalizations are used. Clicking on a blue hypertext link brings up the corresponding genomic Web database entry in a separate Web browser window if the Web access is enabled. It also sets the current gene to the gene for that row. B) The tab-delimited version of the same report may be cut and then pasted into other programs such as an Excel spreadsheet.



2.4.6.3 Table format menu

The report is presented as a table. However, it may be visualized several different ways. The scrollable spreadsheet includes the ability to click on blue hypertext items and have a Web browser pop up for that item on a Web database (e.g. GenBank, dbEST, UniGene, LocusLink, mAdb Genes, GeneCard, etc). The tab-delimited option enables you to cut the table and paste it into a separate spreadsheet program such as Excel. You may also extend the data in the table to by 'Adding' expression profile ratios and statistics from the HP-X and HP-Y 'set' comparisons.

2.4.6.4 Table font size menu

For wider tables, you can see more information if you use a smaller font to display the table. The font sizes available are: