Table 2. Comparison of Heatmapper to existing expression/microarray heat mapping tools.
| Heatmap Builder | Maple Tree | Functional Treeview (FTree-View) | Cluster 3.0 | Micro-Array Explorer (MAEx-plorer) | MultiEx-periment Viewer (MeV) | Metabo-Analyst | Heat-mapper | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Online version available | No | No | Yes (authori-zation required) | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Able to display data as heatmap | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Able to perform clustering | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Major System Restrictions | Windows XP and later only | Requires Java | Requires Java | None | None | Requires Java | None | None |
| Supported Input File Types | txt (tab separated) | cdt | cdt, pcl | txt (tab separated) | mae | mev, tav, gpr, txt (tab separated) | csv, txt (tab separated) | txt, tab, FASTA, pdb, dat, tsv, csv, xlsx, Newick tree |
| Functional Annotation | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Multi-variate Analysis | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |