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Reporting and Exporting Results

Raw data and analysis results from Delta2D can be exported in various formats:

• Tables can be exported as 'comma separated values' (CSV) files or directly as table or report to Microsoft Excel (if this software is installed on your computer).
• Image views can be exported as standard image files or directly to Microsoft Power-point.
• Interactive reports can be created in html format.
• Picklists can be exported for a variety of pickers in the respective picking formats or directly into the Bruker Proteineer database.

Reports and picklists include data for expression profiles or spots that have been 'marked'. You can mark spots by selecting them and the choosing 'Mark > Mark selected spots' in the quantitation table for 'all gel images' or in the Dual View by right click and clicking on 'Mark spot'.

Export Tables to Excel

When exporting a table, you always export exactly what you see, i.e. the visible columns with the visible expression profiles only. Thus you can use the powerful filters of Delta2D to select which data you want to export.
Open the Quantitation Table by choosing 'Window -> Quantitation Table'. If you want to you can define the filters as described above. Now choose from the table's menu 'File -> Export to Excel'. This will directly open an Excel worksheet containing your data. Please note that Excel macros have to be enabled.

Export Image Views into Powerpoint

Creating Microsoft Powerpoint presentation slides also takes a few clicks only.
Open the Dual View for a gel image pair. Zoom in or out and control the visibility of objects such as match vectors, spot boundaries and labels (open the rollup 'Overlays' and toggle visibility by clicking the respective buttons). Choose 'File -> Export to Powerpoint' from the menu. Check both boxes in the next dialog and hit OK. As in Excel, macros should be enabled for the export to work. Follow the instructions on the screen in Powerpoint and then the Powerpoint presentation will be created as a slide. Every object visible in the dual view will be a fully modifiable object in the resulting Powerpoint presentation. Thus you can delete unimportant spot boundaries, highlight labels, spots and other ob-jects of interest by changing their color or font size and design the presentation making use of the whole set of capabilities provided by PowerPoint.

A typical Powerpoint export. Each object can be customized by using Powerpoint properties and formats.

Create interactive HTML-Reports

Typically the results of an experiment shall be reported to colleagues or published on a website or a scientific paper. To facilitate extracting the relevant information, Delta2D provides reports.

In the Project Manager choose 'Reports' and select from the list of available reports. Delta2D provides three standard reports:

• Project Summary
• Spot Album
• Spot Quantities

The 'Project Summary' report includes global information that is available for samples, groups, gels, gel images (including the images) and the warping strategy (including the respective dual channel images). Click on a dual channel image to let Delta2D open the respective Dual View window.

You can save the reports using the 'Save' button provided within the report. You have to switch to Delta2D where a dialog opens that allows for selecting the location of the saved report. When using the 'File -> Save page as ... ' function of your browser you will not re-ceive the full content of the reports.

Spot album report

The 'Spot Album' and the 'Spot Quantities' reports include detailed information about expression profiles for marked spots and allow to define parameters to change the reports' content. Click on the barchart or the spot ID to select the respective expression profile in Delta2D and to receive a detailed report for it.

Exporting picklists

With Delta2D you can export picklists for a variety of available spot picking devices. If your device is not yet supported just let us know and we will try to add it to the set of sup-ported devices.
Picklists include marked spots and the coordinates of all spot labels on the respective gel image. Thus, you can export picklists for an images even if no spot has been detected: simply label the spots of interest (possibly after activating the auto numbering feature for labelling) to include their coordinates in the picklist.