Using Phinch for Metaproteomic data sets?

[Alexander Rabe]

Hi everyone,

a few days ago, I have found Phinch.org rather randomly on the internet. I am really impressed by the possibilities of Meta-OMICs data visualization. Unfortunately, I can use only sequencing data.
Is it possible to develop phinch in a way to make the programme compatible for metaproteomics data? Are you interested in this field? It would help me a lot for my PhD.

Thanks in advance and I am looking forward to hear from you,

Alexander

[Holly Bik]

Hi Alexander,

Technically if you can re-format your data into tab-delimited format (observations in rows, sample IDs in columns), you would be able to load it into Phinch. You'd have to find a way to convert your data into a BIOM 1.0 file in a way that makes sense - I would look at http://www.biom-format.org to read the documentation if you want to figure out a way to do this.

I'm not familiar with metaproteomic data, but we will keep this on the radar when we (hopefully) re-enter active development this summer.

Thanks,

Holly