Emperor’s Documentation

Emperor is an interactive next generation tool for the analysis, visualization and understanding of high throughput microbial ecology datasets.

The Index lists the contents of this documentation.

• Emperor’s public API
  • Emperor 3D PCoA viewer (emperor)
    • Classes
      • emperor.Emperor
    • Functions
      • emperor.nbinstall
      • emperor.scatterplot

General Documentation:

• Description
• Examples
  • Plotting Principal Coordinates Analysis
  • Distance Metric Browser
  • In the Jupyter Notebook
  • Outside the Jupyter Notebook
• File Formats
  • Mapping File
  • Coordinates File

Animations:

• Creating an animation using Emperor

JavaScript Integration

• Integrating Emperor’s JavaScript API with other applications
• Subscribing to Events from a 3rd Party application

Citing Emperor

Remember to cite Emperor if you use it in any published research, please include the following citation:

Note

EMPeror: a tool for visualizing high-throughput microbial community data. Vazquez-Baeza Y, Pirrung M, Gonzalez A, Knight R. Gigascience. 2013 Nov 26;2(1):16.

You can find the Emperor paper here, and the data presented in this paper can be found here.