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To check how well our list of differentially expressed genes distinguishes one treatment group from another, we can perform hierarchical clustering based on the gene list. Clustering can also be used to discover novel groups within your data set, identify gene expression signatures distinguishing groups of samples, and to identify genes with similar patterns of gene expression across samples.
- Select Click the Feature list data node
- Select the Visualizations section of Click Exploratory analysis in the task menuSelect Hierarchical clustering from the Visualizations section of the task menu
- Click Hierarchical clustering (Figure 1)
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The Hierarchical clustering menu will open (Figure 2).
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Hierarchical clustering can be performed with a heatmap or bubble map plot. Cluster must be selected under Ordering for both Feature order and Cell order if both the features (columns) and cells (rows) are to be clustered.
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- Click Finish to run with default settings
A Hierarchical clustering task node will be added to the pipeline (Figure 3).
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- Double-click the Hierarchical clustering clustering / heatmap task node to launch the heat mapheatmap
The Dendrogram view will open showing a heat map heatmap with the hierarchical clustering results (Figure 4).
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Samples are shown on rows and genes on columns. Clustering for samples and genes is shown through the dendrogram trees. More similar samples/genes are separated by fewer branch points of the dendrogram tree.
The heat map heatmap displays standardized expression values with a mean of zero and standard deviation of one.
The heat map heatmap can be customized to improve data visualization using the menu on the left- Configuration panel on the left.
- Expand the Annotations > Data card.
- Click on the gray button on the right hand side of
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- Select Treatment from the Attributes drop-down menuRow annot None available
- In the dialog, click on the Gene counts node
- Now set the Row annot to 5-AZA Dose
Samples are now labeled with their Treatment 5-AZA Dose group (Figure 5).
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Samples cluster based on treatment group and the 5μM and 10μM groups are more similar to each other than to the 0μM group.
We can save the heat map heatmap as a publication-quality image.
- Select Click the Export image icon in the top right corner of the plot
- Choose size and resolution using the Save as SVG dialog (Figure 6)
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- Select Save
The heat map heatmap will be saved as a .svg file and downloaded in your web browser.
For more information about hierarchical clustering and the Dendrogram view, please see the Hierarchical Clustering user user guide.
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