Welcome to shu's documentation!

shu is an interface to plot data on top of metabolic networks, with emphasis in multi-dimensional data across diferent conditions and distributions.

Shu is available as a web application at https://biosustain.github.io/shu or as a native application (see releases).

Check out the plotting section for an overview on how to generate and plot data into the map. The File formats section explains the map (compatible with escher) and data especification.

Map Controls

Left-click & drag to move around the map

Scroll wheel to zoom in / out

Middle-click a histogram or the legend, then drag to move it

Right-click a histogram or the legend, then drag to rotate / zoom

Shift

Right-click + Shift on a histogram, then drag to scale its x-axis

+ −

+ / − to scale the legend.
Hold Ctrl to scale the Settings window

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Use the Settings window to change appearance or export the map as JSON / PNG