Workbooks

Workbooks are used to group together multiple related analyses, and can be used for sharing groups of analysis results with specific groups of people. Multiple Sample Analyses can be grouped into Workbooks (and saved for later use, editing, and sharing). For example, you may have one study involving identifying gene mutations and pathways involved in Head and Neck Cancer (with a given research group) where you keep all the files in one Workbook, and another study with a different group of researchers investigating the average time after diagnosis of death of different lung cancers - stored in another Workbook. Think of workbooks as virtual “excel spreadsheets” that various related analyses can be created in individual Worksheets and grouped together in one Workbook.

Creating and saving a workbook

To create a workbook from Your Dashboard, if you do not have a workbook created, click on the “Create Workbook” link in the “Saved Workbooks” panel at the bottom of the page. This will take you to the workbook creation page.

If you already have saved workbooks, they will be listed in the “Saved Workbooks” panel. Click on the “Saved Workbooks” link in that panel and this will take you to a page that displays the details of your saved workbooks. To create a new saved workbook, use the “Create Workbook” button on the page listing your current saved workbooks.

Workbook Creation Page

  • Concept of worksheets, each with a worksheet to do a sample analysis
  • What Sample Workbooks are
  • Sharing workbooks, not worksheets (like sharing excel files, not excel tabs)
  • Manipulating Workbooks
  • Renaming Workbook
  • Editing details of Workbook (is that the same as description?)
  • Duplicating Workbook
  • Delete Workbook
  • Sharing Workbook
  • Worksheets
  • Why would you create a worksheet
  • Panels in worksheet creation, description of what they are
  • Rules to create them (description at bottom)
  • Functions of Source Data Panel
  • Function of Analysis Type
  • Functions of Garbage, Select, Pencil (be sure to present icons in documentation so users can see what you are referring to). Also how to use them.
  • What Comment mean, why would you use comments, can you edit comments?
  • Description of options to plot determined by what is populated
  • Manipulating Worksheets
  • How to get there (dropdown arrow)
  • Edit Details
  • Duplicate
  • Plot manipulations (Plot Settings)
  • X Axis, Y Axis, Swap
  • Color by Feature
  • Color by Cohort
  • Update Plot

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