{"id":825,"date":"2025-07-13T17:50:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/?p=825"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T23:03:36","slug":"how-to-draw-a-heatmap-with-phenotypic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/how-to-draw-a-heatmap-with-phenotypic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"How to draw a heatmap with phenotypic data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The “Heatmap” tab page has many setting options. If you don’t want to select each setting option individually, just click the [Load demo]<\/strong> button. You’ll see that most of the setting options are configured automatically (Figure 1). The input data format is a phenotypic CSV (*.csv) file that includes environmental factors. After replacing the demo data with your own data, you can freely change the settings to your desired values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will see the header values of the entered phenotypic data appear as a list within the “Columns” box. Select the trait<\/strong> column from the list and click the [Trait]<\/strong> button at the bottom; that trait will then be selected. Similarly, select the environmental factor<\/strong> column and click the [X variable]<\/strong> button, and the items for that column will be listed in the “X variable” table. In the same way, select the sample<\/strong> column and click the [Y variable]<\/strong> button, and the items for that column will be listed in the “Y variable” table. (Figure 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select the desired items from the “X variable” table and the “Y variable” table. If you want to select all items, simply check the “Check all” box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Figure 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click the [Maximum limit]<\/strong> button. In the pop-up palette window, select the color for the largest phenotypic value<\/strong>. Similarly, select the colors for the smallest value<\/strong> and for missing values<\/strong>. (Figure 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Figure 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Go to the Workspace 2<\/strong> tab page and select whether to display the Main title<\/strong>. If you check the display option, enter the Main title<\/strong> value. Once all settings are complete, click the [Visualize]<\/strong> button, and you’ll see the Density plot appear on the right-hand drawing panel (Figure 3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Figure 3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Heatmap” tab page has many setting options. If you don’t want to select each setting option individually, just click the [Load demo] button. You’ll see that most of the setting options are configured automatically (Figure 1). The input data format is a phenotypic CSV (*.csv) file that includes environmental factors. After replacing the demo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}