Version 2.20.0 of the Next-Generation Clustered Heat Map (NG-CHM) viewer is now available. Significant new features in recent versions are listed below:

Interactive, highly-responsive “Next-Generation” Clustered Heat Maps (NG-CHMs) are ideal for exploring heat maps of big data. NG-CHMs enable the user to zoom and navigate dynamically and link out to dozens of external data resources and tools. NG-CHMs exploit recent advances in web technology to improve performance, provide a highly-responsive user experience, and facilitate deep exploration of the biology (or other science) behind the image.

The Next-Generation Clustered Heat Map (NG-CHM) viewer is available as a standalone, single-page HTML application. You can use the application to view NG-CHMs that you have downloaded to or created on your computer. You can even use it while not connected to any network. (Naturally, any link outs to web resources will not work when not connected.)

In this article, I detail how to install the MD Anderson next-generation clustered heat map (NG-CHM) system into a Galaxy instance from the Galaxy Tool Shed. A brief video detailing these same steps is also available as part of our tutorial video series on YouTube.