Introduction

The Beta diversity visualization is commonly used to view the ratio between regional and local species diversity between groups, based on a box plot. The online Beta diversity allows users to change to different taxonomy levels, add p-value, show scatter points or not, use violin plot or not.

Input Files

Click on the Download Data button to check the demo input files.

1. Diversity table (TSV file)

  • header
    Taxonomy level.
  • row names
    Three rows of vectors:
s
group1-group1 0.105 ...
group1-group2 2.134 ...
group2-group2 2.459 ...

2. P-value result (TSV file) (Optional)

  • example
    A table of testing p-value at all taxonomy levels.
s p-value
group1-group1:group1-group2 0.277
group1-group1:group2-group2 0.034
group1-group2:group2-group2 0.471

Display Interactions

  • Drag P
    Drag the p notes to adjust its position.
  • Tooltips
    Hover on the box and a info tooltip will show.
  • Drag x axis labels
    When rotated x axis label is true, you can drag a label to adjust the rotation angle. The rotation rangle is from 0 to 90 degree with label anchored on right middle.
  • Download
    One SVG file will be generated when the Download Chart button is clicked.

Editor Functions

  • Files

    • Manage Files: checklist of files uploaded previously, delete or download files.
    • Upload: upload files. Note that the duplicated file name will be alerted and given a random postfix.
    • Choose: choose files uploaded previously.
  • Data

    • Taxonomic Rank: select the rank of the data to display.
    • Range lower bound: edit the mininum of the value range.
    • Range upper bound: edit the maximum of the value range.
  • Plot Settings

    • Plot Width: input a value to adjust the width of the plot.
    • Plot Height: input a value to adjust the height of the plot.
    • Label Font Size: input an integer to adjust the size of the x/y label.
    • Tick Font Size: input an integer to adjust the size of the axises ticks.
    • Rotate X Axis Labels: check the check box to rotate the x-axis labels.
  • Box Settings

    • Customize Colors: adjust colors for the boxes, scatters, and violins.
    • Hollow box: check it to hollow boxes.
    • Outlier: check it to draw outliers.
    • P-value: check it to display the p notes.
    • Sample Scatters: check it to draw sample scatters over the boxes.
    • Draw Violin: check it to draw violins instead of boxes.


Manual version=1.0, written by Dr. JIANG Yiqi and Ms. WANG Yanfei on 2021-09-13.
Manual version=1.1, updated by Dr. JIANG Yiqi on 2022-04-19.

Version

v1.0.1 (2021-06-10)

Developer

Miss WANG Yanfei (GitHub)

Designer

Dr. JIANG Yiqi (Scholar, ORCID)

Updates

v1.0.1

  • initial functions implemented.