Introduction
Main functionalities
Currently, SPS includes 3 main functional categories (Fig 1):
- Some pre-defined modules (tabs) include: a. A workbench for designing and configuring data analysis workflows, b. Downstream analysis and visualization tools for RNA-Seq, and c. A space to make quick ggplots.
- A section with user custom tabs: users define their own shiny tabs.
- An image editing tab “Canvas” which allows users to edit plots made from the previous two categories.
Besides, SPS provides many functions to extend the default Shiny development, like more UI components, server functions. Also, SPS has some useful general R ulitlies like error catching, logging, and more.
Figure 1. Design of SPS
The framework provides an interactive web interface for workflow management and data visualization.
SPS tabs
Within the functional categories, SPS functions are modularized into
sub-components, here referred to as SPS tabs that are similar to
menu tabs in other GUI applications that organize related and inter-connected
functionalies into groups. On the backend, SPS tabs are based on Shiny modules,
that are stored in separate files. This modular structure is highly extensible
and greatly simplifies the design of new SPS tabs by both users and/or developers.
Details about extending existing tabs and designing new ones are provided in
Manage tabs section on our website.