PhyloTrac is an free and easy to use application for the visualization and analysis of PhyloChip microarrays.
The PhyloChip is a popular 16S rRNA gene microarray for microbial surveys, and has been successfully used to study the microbial diversity of several interesting environments.
However, PhyloChip`s adoption has been limited by a lack of accessible analysis software.
PhyloTrac fills this need and is the first desktop application providing end-to-end PhyloChip analysis.
PhyloTrac standardizes the PhyloChip probe intensity and OTU classification scoring routines, and provides rich, interactive visualizations of the results through several integrated displays.
PhyloTrac is capable of displaying data from multiple Phylochip and traditional 16S sequencing projects in a variety of styles, including heatmap, time series/parallel coordinates, probe intensity display, difference plot, phylogenetic tree, and textual spreadsheets.
NOTE: PhyloTrac is freely available for non-commercial users and for all major computer desktop operating systems.
