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 theDownload 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.