How do I prepare my data for reading ?

Your data must be stored in a .csv (Comma-separated Values) file. The .csv file is conveniently created in a spreadsheet program such as Microsoft Excel, using the format described below. Each gene is represented by a row in Excel. The first row of the file is the header of the table (horizontal tan part). The two first columns contain the description of each gene (left vertical blue part). The values must begin in the third column (yellow part). Missing values are represented by blank fields in Excel.

You can also enter your data in a text file and save the result as yourfile.csv. For example the following file text is equivalent to the Excel spreadsheet depicted figure 1:

Gene,Func.Class.1,E11,E13,E15,E18,E21,P0,P7,P14,A
keratin,neuro-glial markers,27.29,6.08,7.75,4.07,6.95,3.42,2.14,0.59,0
cellubrevin,neuro-glial markers,92.3,78.89,17.73,21.65,23.52,18.8,26.07,29.07,9.82
nestin,neuro-glial markers,40.61,58.5,77.5,28.46,15.34,8.32,3.55,3.75,1.59
MAP2,neuro-glial markers,0.64,9.12,23.1,16.77,16.97,11.07,9.58,11.63,6.83

Missing values are represented by a double comma.

In case of difficulties in formatting your data, you can use the data importer window which will automatically convert your data into a format directly readable by ArrayMiner.