Vortex

Intuitive and versatile scientific data visualization and analysis

Overview

Visualization and Analytics

Vortex is an interactive data visualization and analysis solution for scientific decision support. Building on and extending the spreadsheet paradigm, it provides the data manipulation, statistical analysis and sophisticated plotting capabilities required to explore and understand any complexity and size of data. Vortex is also scientifically aware providing native cheminformatics and bioinformatics analysis and visualizations.

Features

Overview

What it does

Allows users to understand, refine and select from large and/or complex data sets
Allows teams to collaborate on scientific analysis through shareable workspaces and reusable templates
Understands numeric, textual, image, chemical structure and biologic sequence data
Generates high performance, interactive visualizations, including charts and tables
Handles very large datasets – e.g. tables of millions of compounds by thousands of descriptors or cells containing whole genome sequences
Has inbuilt data mining, statistical, cheminformatics and bioinformatics analysis functions
Loads data from many types of file or when used in conjunction with Browser, directly from databases

Benefits

Performant – allows highly responsive interaction and manipulation of complex representations of massive datasets
Scientific – native chemistry and bioinformatics data types and analyses
Integrated – transfer data sets directly from Browser searches, and return selected items to new Browser hitlists for further processing
Collaborative – save templates for standardized team templates. Share workspaces for shared team analysis and decision making
Open – scriptable API for application extension and integration of third party analytics

Key features

Imports data from flat files, spreadsheets and CSV formats; chemistry from SDfiles or SMILES; and sequences from FASTA or FASTQ
Imports data directly from databases, including Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL; and links to Browser to import from corporate databases
Interactive, high performance tables that can be colored, sorted and filtered by text, numeric or structural criteria
Many generic and scientific plots include, line, scatter (2D or 3D), surface, radar, profile etc.
Many generic and scientific charts include bar, pie, plate viewer, heat maps, 2D SAR, CIRCOS plots etc.
Cheminformatics analyses including R-group, enumeration, SAR, matched molecular pairs…
Bioinformatics analyses including fast sequence alignment, sequence clustering,
Exports directly to PowerPoint
Scriptable with Python to create new plots and analyses or to integrate third party calculators: a script exchange provides many examples and third party wrappers
Runs on Windows, Linux and Apple Mac operating systems