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Present Results

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

• Interactive reports can be created in html format.
• Tables can be exported as 'Character Separated Values' (CSV) files or directly as table or report to MS Excel (if this software is installed on your computer).
• Image views can be exported as standard image files or directly to Microsoft PowerPoint (if this software is installed on your computer).
• 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 'selected' or 'marked'. You can select spots by clicking them or mark spots by selecting them and then choosing 'Mark' > 'Mark selected spots' in the Quantitation Table or in the Dual View by right click and clicking on 'Mark spot'.

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 'Reports' menu you can select from the list of available reports. Delta2D provides four standard reports:

Project Summary

Spot Album

Spot Quantities

Labels

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 receive the full content of the reports.

Spot album report

The 'Spot Album' and the 'Spot Quantities' reports include detailed information about expression profiles for selected or marked spots, respectively, 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. The 'Labels' report includes either all labels, or the labels pointing to selected or marked spots on a certain image.

Export Tables to MS 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. If you want to you can define the filters as described above. Now choose from the table's menu 'Export' > 'Export to Excel'. This will directly open an MS Excel worksheet containing your data.

Export Image Views into MS Powerpoint

Creating Microsoft Powerpoint presentation slides also takes a few clicks only.
Creating 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 'Export' > 'Export to PowerPoint' from the Dual View menu. Check both boxes in the next dialog and confirm withOK.
Follow the instructions on the screen in PowerPoint to create the PowerPoint presentation as a slide. Every object visible in the Dual View will be a fully modifiable object in the resulting PowerPoint presentation: You can delete unimportant spot boundaries, highlight labels, spots and other objects 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.

Macros have to be enabled in Excel and PowerPoint to export the data. I.e. macro security settings need to changed to 'Medium' or lower.

Export picklists

With Delta2D you can export picklists for a variety of available spot picking devices. If your device is not yet supported please contact the DECODON support team and we will try to add it to the set of supported devices.

Picklists include marked spots and the coordinates of all spot labels on the respective gel image. Thus, you can export picklists for an image even if no spots have been detected: simply label the spots of interest (possibly after activating the auto numbering feature for labelling) to include their coordinates in the picklist.