TABLE 4.

Comparison between BRIDGE, Germinate3, and T3/Barley.

Resource name	Resource type	Custom collections	Interactive brushing and linking	Integrated visualizations	Interactive plots	Data export
Germinate3	Data warehouse	(✓)	×	✓	(✓)	CSV, Flapjack
T3/Barley	Data warehouse	×	×	✓	×	CSV, Flapjack
BRIDGE	Visual analytics webtool	✓	✓	✓	✓	ISA-tab, VCF, CSV

The features of the resources are compared based on: resource type, the ability to subset the data into custom collections, if the concept of “interactive brushing and linking” has been implemented, the ability to generate graphical results, the interactivity of generated plots, and the data export formats. The “✓” shows a full compliance, while “(✓)” shows a partial compliance and the “×” shows no compliance.