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Software => Other => Topic started by: AmSidebottomIU on July 12, 2011, 05:27:07 PM

Title: 3D renderings of metabolomics data
Post by: AmSidebottomIU on July 12, 2011, 05:27:07 PM
Hello,

Does anyone know what program was used to generate Figure 5 (A) in this paper?  I am looking to export my data to make a similar image and cannot find it- thank you for any help!
http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v4/ ... h1038.html (http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v4/n5/abs/nmeth1038.html)

Ashley Sidebottom
amsidebo@indiana.edu
Title: Re: 3D renderings of metabolomics data
Post by: Ralf on July 13, 2011, 11:34:13 AM
It looks like a MATLAB plot to me.

But you might get similar results using R, e.g.
- with the RGL package  http://rgl.neoscientists.org/gallery.shtml (http://rgl.neoscientists.org/gallery.shtml)
- or using Rcmdr's built in scatter3d function
http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/ (http://socserv.socsci.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/Rcmdr/)

Ralf.
Title: Re: 3D renderings of metabolomics data
Post by: AmSidebottomIU on July 17, 2011, 11:59:41 AM
Would anyone know what the excel file looks like for uploading into Matlab?

I am trying to relate m/z (x), retention time (z) and abundance (y)- my problem is that I don't see a straight forward way to do this- every tutorial is based on calculating a the third variable and not just uploading the data.  I already have all of the data, I just need to figure out how to format it in Matlab for visualization-

Any help would be appreciated, thank you!