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heatmap: Heatmap¶
Docstring:
Usage: qiime vizard heatmap [OPTIONS]
Basic heatmap for visualizing three Metadata measures.
Parameters:
--m-metadata-file METADATA...
(multiple Any metadata-like input that contains at least three
arguments will be measures for visualizing, one of which must be
merged) numeric. [required]
--p-x-measure TEXT Numeric or categorical measure from the input
Metadata that should be plotted on the x-axis.
[required]
--p-y-measure TEXT Numeric or categorical measure from the input
Metadata that should be plotted on the y-axis.
[required]
--p-gradient-measure TEXT
Numeric measure from the input Metadata that should
be used to represent the color gradient in the
heatmap. [required]
--p-title TEXT The title of the heatmap. [optional]
Outputs:
--o-visualization VISUALIZATION
[required]
Miscellaneous:
--output-dir PATH Output unspecified results to a directory
--verbose / --quiet Display verbose output to stdout and/or stderr
during execution of this action. Or silence output if
execution is successful (silence is golden).
--example-data PATH Write example data and exit.
--citations Show citations and exit.
--use-cache DIRECTORY Specify the cache to be used for the intermediate
work of this action. If not provided, the default
cache under $TMP/qiime2/ will be used.
IMPORTANT FOR HPC USERS: If you are on an HPC system
and are using parallel execution it is important to
set this to a location that is globally accessible to
all nodes in the cluster.
--help Show this message and exit.
Examples:
# ### example: heatmap
qiime vizard heatmap \
--m-metadata-file metadata.tsv \
--p-x-measure x \
--p-y-measure y \
--p-gradient-measure a \
--o-visualization heatmap.qzv
Import:
from qiime2.plugins.vizard.visualizers import heatmap
Docstring:
Heatmap
Basic heatmap for visualizing three Metadata measures.
Parameters
----------
metadata : Metadata
Any metadata-like input that contains at least three measures for
visualizing, one of which must be numeric.
x_measure : Str
Numeric or categorical measure from the input Metadata that should be
plotted on the x-axis.
y_measure : Str
Numeric or categorical measure from the input Metadata that should be
plotted on the y-axis.
gradient_measure : Str
Numeric measure from the input Metadata that should be used to
represent the color gradient in the heatmap.
title : Str, optional
The title of the heatmap.
Returns
-------
visualization : Visualization