HCP (HeatmapCovariatePl​ot)

Open-source package to generate publication-quality, highly customizable heatmaps annotated with continuous/categorical metadata variables.
Updated 24 Jun 2019

HCP (HeatmapCovariatePlot) provides a simple high level application programming interface (API) to design elaborated visualizations in a modular fashion. The user can select which elements to include, covariate row annotations and/or heatmaps, by invoking the AddCovariateRow or the AddHeatmap methods. Elements can be vertically stacked and also grouped in functionally related sub-blocks encapsulated by the AddSubBlock method to adjust the figure layout. The plotting options in HCP are chosen sensibly to create production-quality out-of-the-box visualizations in most use-case. HCP features several plotting options to adjust the plot aesthetics to cater for the user preferences in terms of colormaps, labelling, legends and layouts (margins and positions). HCP ease-of-use and rapidity enables the users to iterate through multiple visualization alternatives while focusing on the message conveyed by the data rather than the technicalities involved in generating the plot.

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Salvucci, Manuela, and Jochen Prehn. “HCP: A Matlab Package to Create Beautiful Heatmaps with Richly Annotated Covariates.” Journal of Open Source Software, vol. 4, no. 38, The Open Journal, June 2019, p. 1291, doi:10.21105/joss.01291.

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Salvucci, Manuela, and Jochen H. M. Prehn. HCP: A Matlab Package to Create Beautiful Heatmaps with Richly Annotated Covariates. Zenodo, 2019, doi:10.5281/zenodo.3242593.

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MATLAB Release Compatibility
Created with R2014b
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