A character is basically a name-value pair of which the value can be binary, multi-state or continuous. Because of this very broad definition, a wide variety of data can be analyzed as character types (= an array of characters). This includes morphological and biochemical features, commercial test panels (API®, Biolog®, Vitek®, etc.), antibiotics resistance profiles, fatty acid profiles, microarrays, SNP arrays, repeat numbers in MLVA, allelic profiles in MLST, etc.
Characters
Importing MLST data from an Excel file
This tutorial illustrates how to import MLST allelic profiles and strain information from an Excel file. The same steps are also applicable for import of other character experiments.
Neisseria MLST data
MS Excel file, containing MLST allelic profiles for 500 Neisseria meningitidis strains, including serogroup and strain information.
Import character information from excel
Antibiotics susceptibility testing
I am working with antibiotic susceptibility tests and was wondering if there is a way to automatically assign the properties Sensitive, Intermediate and Resistant based on Minimal Inhibitory Concentrations (MIC values) and/or inhibition zone diameters?
Character data representation
I have a character type experiment, which I would like to see displayed in the experiment card as a 96-well plate, to resemble as closely as possible the actual experiment. However, the software does not allow me to do this; the option Plate in the Character type settings is grayed and can not be selected.
Minimum spanning trees: weight by VNTR copy number difference
I have a question regarding the use of minimum spanning trees for the analysis of MLVA data: is there a way to weight the analysis to take the number of repeat differences at each locus into consideration?
Exporting character values
How can I export the numeric values from a character data file into Excel?
Categorical coefficient
What is the "categorical coefficient" and what can I use it for?