Visualizing multiple average profiles

Question

[Saad Khan]

What would be a good way to visualize the average profiles across multiple tissues and samples. That is to say something like this visualized over multiple tissues :-

[IMG]http://i61.tinypic.com/29zu16r.png[/IMG]

Answer 1

[Alex Reynolds]

You could use R, with colMeans(), plot(), lines() and related functions. You'd add as many lines() calls as you need to show multiple aggregate profiles for various signals (example).

Answer 2

[dariober]

See the deepTools suite, in particular the computeMatrix and profiler tools ( https://github.com/fidelram/deepTools/wiki/Visualizations ). Similar questions have appeared a few times on biostars.