Gitools Heatmaps (.heatmap.zip)

Gitools saves and loads a format with the extension .heatmap or .heatmap.zip. These files contain all the necessary information to recreate the exact state of when the heatmap was saved.

What does the .heatmap.zip contain?

It is a zip folder that does not need to be unzipped in order to be opened by Gitools. If we assume that you saved a heatmap with Gitools called superstudy.heatmap.zip. Thus the heatmap.zip will contain:

• superstudy.heatmap: An xml file contain information about visible rows, columns and as well row and column headeres

• superstudy-data.tdm.gz: A data file which contains all the data for the heatmap. The extension can vary, depending on how the

  data was loaded.

• superstudy-columns-annotations.tsv.gz: All the annotation data for the columns, also unused fields.

• superstudy-rows-annotations.tsv.gz: All the annotation data for the rows, also unused fields.