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| Quilt Plot from PLOS One |
If you have missed the uproar over Quilt Plots and whether or not they are Heat Maps, well, you have then missed the uproar over Quilt Plots and whether or not they are Heat Maps. It has been uproarious. But you may not know that the literature pre-anticipated this uproar and many already developed alternatives, even if they did not know it. And here are the top ones.
Guilt plots
In "Prediction of gene function by genome-scale expression analysis: prostate cancer-associated genes" by Walker et al. they report the development of a method "we call Guilt-by-Association (GBA)." Unfortunately, and amazingly, there are NO FIGURES IN THE PAPER. Fortunately, lots of other people have done similar GBA methods. A figure from one such study is below
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| A Guilt Plot |
Alas even though some people now call these Eisengrams, they certainly should have been called Guilt Plots. And that is what I am renaming them.
Beet maps
Not much to say other than this is simply visionary:
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| Beet Map |
