depictio Depictio dashboard for rnaseq: your feedback wanted
Hi all! š I am building
Depictio, an open-source platform from EMBL to explore pipeline results without writing a Shiny or Streamlit app each time. A pipeline gets a
dashboard template: a short definition that turns the outputs of any run into an interactive dashboard. I am now sharing it more widely, so I would like the view of rnaseq users and developers.
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What it does
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MultiQC reports (aggregated across runs) next to result
tables,
images,
phylogenetic trees,
maps... with
linked filters
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Reusable: point the template at any new run of the same pipeline and you get the same dashboard
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Fully editable: modify any dashboard from the
GUI or in
YAML, so the template is a starting point, not a constraint
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Versioned, with
comments and annotations on any component
⢠Runs as a
Python package, with
Docker Compose or on
Kubernetes, and can serve as a
companion web app for a publication
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For rnaseq: per-library mapping, duplication and read distribution, sample PCA and distances, the most variable genes by condition and a per-gene expression explorer, next to the MultiQC report.
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Compared with shinyngs: for the differential expression part, the usual route is nf-core/differentialabundance, which builds an R/Shiny app (shinyngs) from a matrix and a design. Depictio is not tied to R or to one data type: it shows the same kind of results (PCA, volcano, MA, GSEA) next to the MultiQC report and the other outputs of the run, behind one link, with versioning and comments. I see it as complementary: shinyngs is made for exploring expression data, Depictio for sharing the whole run.
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What I need: I have built 25 templates and want people who really use these pipelines to review and criticise them. What is useful? What is misleading?
š Dashboard:
rnaseq dashboard (no account needed)
š¬ Comment on the dashboard (Google sign-in) or in the
GitHub discussion dedicated to rnaseq.
ā A star on the
repo is welcome if you find it useful. Thanks! š
š¤ In you're interested in the project, I was speaking about Depictio at the Nextflow Summit (
session page), and the recording will be available in the coming weeks.