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Includes performance optimizations and fixes for improved speed and usability of Partek Flow software. To upgrade to this version, please follow the steps outlined in our Installation Guide.

10.0.23.0720

  • Added option to report down regulated genes (negative biomarkers) for each cluster in compute biomarkers 
  • Added option to specify input data is linear or log scale
  • Added split sample option in single cell QA/QC task
  • Improvement on memory usage for variant validation task
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0720.334

10.0.23.0531

  • Improved 2D scatterplot labeling up to 2000 selected points
  • Added option for deselected point color to be the same as selected point color
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0531.320

10.0.23.0519

  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0519.317

10.0.23.0425

  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0425.313

10.0.23.0414

  • Added FDR adjusted p-value in the enrichment report
  • Added a function to remove empty folders on the settings menu
  • Improved the bar chart to display text attributes
  • Improved single cell count matrix import to allow user to filter cells with low umi counts
  • Simplified the wording on the settings menu
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0414.312

10.0.23.0326

  • Improved gene set enrichment analysis by adding feature identifier selector
  • Improved data import to set the most recently opened directory as the default directory 
  • Upgraded Cutadapt to version 4.2
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0326.310

10.0.23.0312

  • Added links to the number of genes to download gene list in biological interpretation report
  • Added a filter task on differential analysis report data node to extend the flexibility
  • Improved GSEA task to perform on attributes with more than 2 groups
  • Upgraded Space Ranger to 2.0.1
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0312.310

10.0.23.0214

  • Added rich factor in enrichment analysis report
  • Added function to download gene lists in biological interpretation reports
  • Improved Violin plot to have different Max on Y-axis in different groups
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0214.305

10.0.23.0131

  • Added an optional t-statistic value output to the ANOVA report
  • Added support for the Parse Bio SPLiT-Seq count matrix data format
  • Allowed the Annotate feature task to be performed on count matrix data nodes
  • Added Survival analysis task options
  • Added function allowing the selection of cells based on a score from a list of genes 
  • Added motif detection function to the gene list report in the RNA-Seq assay
  • Added primary ID option to allow selection when there are two IDs in the file to import
  • Added support for single sign-on
  • Improved the transfer file function to not observe the time out setting
  • Refined the import for single cell sparse matrix files (3 files per sample) to support multiple samples at one time
  • Improved the Correlation analysis task to allow the user to search for specific features to perform correlation with all the features
  • Optimized the default Volcano plot display
  • Changed the default settings on a 2D scatterplot to fill the view
  • Upgraded SCTransform v2
  • Minor bug fixes 

Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0131.304

10.0.23.0124

  • Improved the I/O performance on the coverage report task
  • Minor bug fixes


Latest docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:23.0124.298

10.0.22.1204

  • Added an importer for Parse Biosciences single cell count sparse matrix file format
  • Allowed the use of a feature list summary score to select cells, the score can be published to project level from the data viewer
  • Switched the default feature scaling setting to standardize for a bubble map
  • Changed the default settings to compute biomarkers for both graph-based clustering and K-means clustering dialogs
  • Allowed the export of data as matrix from the heatmap viewer
  • Minor bug fixes


Latest Docker image: registry.partek.com/rtw:22.1204.290

10.0.22.1111

  • Bug fixes

10.0.22.1107

  • Upgraded peak detection method to MACS 3.0
  • Added leading edge genes generation in GSEA report details
  • Improved speed and performance on UI
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.1023

  • Improved the KEGG pathway image update with version number
  • Added a function to allow any project level attributes as sample ID when creating project from a data node
  • Added stretch to view point option on axes configuration for more efficient space in 2D plots
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.1003

  • Added annotate features task on single cell count data node
  • Added round normalization method
  • Added filter task on gene set enrichment report data node
  • Added LIMMA-trend and LIMMA VOOM method options in differential analysis
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0828

  • Improved the Data viewer interface to make it more user friendly and more flexible, added how-to video link in each dialog
  • Improved the speed and memory efficiency for the Seurat3 integration task
  • Improved TF-IDF normalization memory usage
  • Improved import of scATAC count matrix to be more memory efficient
  • Changed the classify tool by removing the data node selection step when using apply classifications 
  • Changed the computation of median, Q1, Q3 on the Box & Whisker plot using a different method to match the descriptive statistics method
  • Changed the default promoter regions to be up/down 1000bp from TSS for annotate regions
  • Added function to save video for 3D scatterplot rotation
  • Added import for VDJ annotation combined with gene expression data generated from the Cell Ranger pipeline
  • Added support for Space Ranger 2.0 outputs
  • Added a function to compute descriptive statistics on observations to use a list of features
  • Added Spot clean task on Space ranger output data node
  • Combined differential analysis methods into one task on the menu
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0727

  • Added a task to merge adjacent regions
  • Added a function to remove data published in data repository
  • Improved scATAC data import to be more efficient on RAM usage
  • Allow user to select whether to display shrinkage plot on GSA nd hurdle model report in advanced option
  • Changed the default graph-based clustering resolution to 0.5
  • Reorganized the task menu, added Statistics section
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0703

  • Upgrade MACS to version 3.0.0a7
  • Added a function to allow user to perform motif detection on quantify region report
  • Added flexibility to allow user to define TSS, TTS regions when perform peak annotation
  • Renamed the default quantify region task report data node as region counts
  • Added compare region tasks to allow user to compare regions among samples
  • Added promoter sum task for scATAC data analysis
  • Added down scale alignment tasks on aligned data node
  • Allow user to run gene set enrichment task on filtered gene count matrix data node
  • Merged Gene set enrichment and pathway enrichment tasks into one to reduce confusion
  • Changed the graph-based clustering default resolution setting from 1 to 0.5 
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0524

  • Added a function to allow user to create annotation model from the reference
  • Added a function to allow user to create new annotation model by merging to existing annotation models
  • Improved the user interface on differential analysis tasks
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0428

  • Fixed the refresh delay issue on library file management dialog 

10.0.22.0424

  • Added sorting observations based numeric attribute function on heatmap
  • Added a function to allow user to create a new assembly reference by providing sequence
  • Added a function to allow user to create a new assembly reference by merging two existing assembly
  • Added case insensitive option when filter features based on a list
  • Improved the interface of generating heatmap and bubble map
  • Improved list creating to handle leading and trailing white space in the list
  • Added function to allow user access read only directory
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0410

  • Improved feature on generating filtered node operation on differential analysis report page, the page will not redirect automatically after clicking the button
  • Changed some import task labels
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0330

  • Changed the order of Annotation models section in library file management page, Genomics library files tab
  • Removed selecting files from local computer option, instead files need to be transferred to server to be used in tasks
  • Improved the speed of UI
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0321

  • Bug fix on enrichment report visualization
  • Bug fix on Seurat3 integration task excluding feature IDs with hyphen

10.0.22.0313

  • Added option to allow features to be sorted based on a feature list in heatmap
  • Allow to invoke WNN on SVD data node
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0228

  • Improved on handling big genome alignment like wheat
  • Added classification summary report on Garnett classify cell type task
  • Allow to sort heatmap samples/cells using numeric attributes
  • Improved the speed on sctransform task
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0213

  • Added TF_IDF normalization task
  • Added singular value decomposition task
  • Improved the Seurat3 integration computation on normalized with SCTransformed data by adding PrepSCTIntegration function
  • Changed the Seurat object importer, added convert Seurat to matrix task
  • Removed Shrimp aligner support
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0130

  • Improved Flow homepage layout
  • Improved the pipeline management page
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0121

  • Added sorting observations based numeric attribute function on heatmap
  • Added gene labeling option in heatmap when use Ensembl annotation
  • Added CellRanger ATAC wrapper
  • Improved filter observation tasks to easily choose multiple subgroups from the same attribute
  • Improved feature list creation after features selected on data viewer
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.22.0102

  • Added GSEA task for biological interpretation
  • Extend Cell ranger task to support custom assemblies
  • Improved Space ranger interface to be more intuitive
  • Upgraded GATK to version 4.2
  • Removed standardization option in t-SNE dialog
  • Added learning rate parameter in t-SNE advanced dialog
  • Added function to allow to specify multiple levels in each comparison panel in non-parametric ANOVA and Welch's ANOVA task
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.1116

  • Sped up h5 file import
  • Sped up transfer file process
  • Added a new peak filter task
  • Added log transformation on Scran deconvolution output data
  • Added option to use gene name or gene ID to filter features based on gene list task
  • Added region length information on differential analysis report on regions
  • Improved creating factorial comparisons on differential analysis dialog
  • Added feature list creation function in data viewer on selected features
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.1026

  • Sped up sparse matrix import
  • Added poscounts normalization method for DESeq2 
  • Added support on .gaf file as gene set library file format
  • Minor bug fixes 

10.0.21.1014

  • Added feature to allow search a list of gene names in volcano plot
  • Added S1 and SUM_MS values to INFO column in Pindel vcf files
  • Added Space ranger task in Flow for hg38, mm10 and hg38-mm10 assembly
  • Improved UMAP speed
  • Improved task graph drawing speed
  • Improved sra file importer
  • Improved h5 importer to handle both 32bit and 64bit values
  • Minor bug fixes 

10.0.21.0929

  • Added Salmon algorithm to compute gene count from fastq files
  • Added Garnett cell type classification function
  • Added support on import and export of h5ad file format on scRNA-seq project
  • Added weighted nearest neighbor algorithm for multimodal single cell datasets analysis
  • Improved speed on user interface interaction
  • Minor bug fixes 

10.0.21.0912

  • Improved PCA dialog when there is only one sample in the project, no need to select split sample option
  • Improved cell number and cell percentage descriptive statistics computation to give more options
  • Improved cell ranger functions to handle CITE-seq data
  • Improved post-alignment QA/QC speed
  • Improved heatmap export to allow entire data after zoom in 
  • Changed TPM normalization method, remove scaling across sample step
  • Added 10X CellRager HDF5 file format option when download single cell data matrix data node
  • Added visualization on enrichment report
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0816

  • Added a function to allow manually drag&drop to change the order of features/observations on heatmap
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0801

  • Improvement Kraken on handling samples with multiple files
  • Added report transcript assemblers option in HISAT2
  • Added download option on multiple fastq/bam files associated with one sample to allow download one merged file fastq/bam per sample
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0723

  • Updated bioproject download link based on the changes on ENA website
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0718

  • Added function to display both Ensembl gene ID and gene name in differential analysis report
  • Improvement on interface response
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0707

  • Added Flow version in each task details
  • Allow to change group order by drag and drop directly on the axis on scatter plot
  • Added re-order mode in heatmap to allow to drag and drop observation/feature labels to swap 
  • Added function to display both Ensembl gene ID and gene name in data viewer table
  • Added support on .tsv file format as cell annotation file
  • Added more descriptive statistics to filter cell task report
  • Output STAR fusion in vcf format
  • Improved speed on interface and visualization
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0621

  • Improve 10X Genomics Visium image annotation to handle multiple samples
  • Added 10X Genomics Cellranger to handle scRNA-seq data from 10X Genomics on human, mouse and human-mouse assemblies
  • Improve PCA computation on memory usage on large datasets
  • Added more functions on metagenomics data analysis 
  • Added STAR fusion function
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0602

  • Added a sample level box plot on the sctransform task report
  • Added Cell Ranger to process 10X Genomics fastq files and generate count matrix data on hg38, mm10 and hg38-mm10 references
  • Improved library file deletion function – list all projects that using the file
  • Improved hierarchical clustering visualization – allow user to manually adjust dendrogram size
  • Removed log transformation section in PCA and hierarchical clustering dialogs
  • Added more options in the STAR configuration dialog
  • STAR aligner is upgraded to 2.7.8a
  • Added support on Seurat4 objects import (requires R version 4 and above)
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0509

  • Added a feature of allowing manually type in a list of features to color in scatterplot
  • Added annotate Visium task to add tissue position and image information on 10X Genomics Visium data
  • Added compute biomarker as an independent task in addition to the subtask in any classification task
  • Improved the Seurat3 integration task
  • Enable both Monocle 2 and Monocle 3 in trajectory analysis
  • Added download options for mm39 assembly library files
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0411

  • Added number of genes for up and down regulation separately in volcano plot
  •  Annotate Visium task to add tissue position and image information on 10X Genomics Visium data
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0328

  • Added HTSeq quantification method to Microarray data analysis
  • Added BWA method on ERCC in pre-alignment QA/QC
  • Added project statistics information on homepage
  • Improvement Monocle 3 (trajectory analysis) to automatically detect the input data is in log scale or not
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0302

  • Upgrade trajectory analysis using monocle 3 algorithm
  • Added bubble map shortcut in data viewer
  • Added function to specify gene list in filter feature dialog without creating a list beforehand
  • Added more options in usage report
  • Changed the graph-based clustering nearest neighbor type default from KNN to NN-Descent
  • Improvement on interface
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0201

  • Added publish cell attributes to project task
  • Scatterplot selection labeling is turned off by default
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.21.0117

  • Added more options to generate usage report
  • Added more configuration options in BWA-MEM
  • Added download to the user management table
  • Minor bug fixes

10.0.20.1231

  • Added heatmap plot type in data viewer, hierarchical cluster report is in data viewer
  • Added pie chart on visualizing categorical sample/cell annotation
  • Added Harmony algorithm for data transformation
  • Added Scran normalization method
  • Added Seurat 3 integration task
  • Added more options on descriptive statistics task
  • Added filtering capability on task management page
  • Added ability to perform biological interpretation on miRNA data
  • Added similarity matrix task on bulk RNA count matrix data node
  • Added correlation section on task menu and move sample correction, correlation analysis under this menu
  • Added function to import count matrix to allow import multiple files
  • Added function to use sample name to split attribute on single cell data node
  • Improved text importer to handle text file generated from R which has the first column shifted
  • Improved speed on data viewer
  • Improved volcano plot display
  • Improved filter feature task dialog speed and added filter based on feature meta data
  • Changed the default calculation on features in descriptive statistics dialog
  • Changed single cell QA/QC plot to display 4 plots by default
  • Changed DESeq2 only normalization report not using per million scale
  • Changed the per million normalization using the sum of input count instead of aligned read counts
  • Removed the log transformation in tSNE, UMAP and graph-base clustering dialog to reduce confusion
  • Minor bug fixes


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