Author: Matthias Bieg

hmap: Python Heatmap Package

This package implements a convenient heatmap plotting package in python. It offers low level functions for

1. Plotting
   • Heatmaps
   • Dendrograms
   • Annotations
   • Legends
2. Figure layouting

Clustered heatmap

Grouped clustered heatmap

Figure layout

The hmap package comes with a module for defining the layout of a figure using absolute length measurements. Currently the only unit supported is milimeters. The layout of a figure is defined as a grid. You have to specify

• the number of rows,
• the number of columns,
• the widths of the columns,
• the heights of the rows,
• the vertical distance between adjacent rows,
• the horizontal distance between adjacent columns,
• the size of the bottom border margin,
• the size of the top border margin,
• the size of the left border margin, and
• the size of theright border margin As said before, the sizes are given in milimeters.

Example

import sys
import hmap
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, gs = hmap.layout.layout.layoutGrid(4, 5, [10., 2., 40., 40., 40], [10., 2., 40., 40.], 1., 1., 20., 15., 15., 20.)
col_widths = ["10 mm", "2 mm", "40 mm", "40 mm", "40 mm"]
row_heights = ["10 mm", "2 mm", "40 mm", "40 mm"]

for row_idx in range(4):
    for col_idx in range(5):
        ax = plt.subplot(gs[row_idx, col_idx])
        plt.xticks([], [])
        plt.yticks([], [])
        if(row_idx == 0):
            ax.xaxis.set_label_position("top")
            plt.xlabel(col_widths[col_idx], 
                       fontsize=7, 
                       rotation=90)
        if(col_idx == 0):
            plt.ylabel(row_heights[row_idx], 
                       fontsize=7, 
                       rotation=0, 
                       horizontalalignment="right",
                       verticalalignment="center")

Installation

pip install hmap

Usage Example

Please check the jupyter notebook for an example of how to use hmap.

Acknowledgements

This package was implemented during my time at the German Cancer Research Center in the group of Theoretical Bioinformatics headed by Prof. Dr. Roland Eils, where i was part of the core bioinformatics team of the Heidelberg Institute of Personalized Oncology (HIPO). Further refinment and final upload to PyPI was done during my time at Charite, Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) in the Department of Digital Health headed by Prof. Roland Eils.

License

Copyright (c) 2021, Matthias Bieg

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