From analysis to presentation

When you have produced useful alignments and analyses with GoCore, it is naturally desirable to show the results in research presentations, reports or academic publications. This help page contains tips to help you achieve this.

A few simple instructions will help to get you started. Please remember that a bioinformatics workbook is really an Excel workbook and that residues are stored in cells. Therefore, if you already have a way to show Excel spreadsheet results in presentations and publications, you can use the same method to show GoCore results. The cut, copy and paste tools work just the same for GoCore as they do for Excel.

Both the Raw data page and the Analysis pages have a Swap view button that toggles between a more "zoomed out" space-conserving visualization and a more "zoomed in" easier-to-read visualization. You can choose between these custom views to find the best analysis size for your presentation. Also, the Analysis pages allow you directly resize columns and rows just as in Excel. You can also apply additional formatting, such as boxing residues of interest, changing the font and style, etc.

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Referencing GoCore in publications

If you use GoCore in your research, please do remember to reference the tool. At the minimum, please mention the tool's website : http://www.helsinki.fi/project/ritvos/GoCore/.

Additionally, you might choose to reference the following article in which GoCore has been applied:

Immunoneutralization of Growth Differentiation Factor 9 Reveals It Partially Accounts for Mouse Oocyte Mitogenic Activity. 

Gilchrist RB, Ritter LJ, Cranfield M, Jeffery LA, Amato F, Scott SJ, Myllymaa S, Kaivo-Oja N, Lankinen H, Mottershead DG, Groome NP, Ritvos O. 

Biology of Reproduction 2004 Sep; 71(3): 732-9

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Extracting pictures from a bioinformatics workbook

There are a number of ways in which you can convert the results of analyses into pictures for inclusion in presentations and/or publications.

The first method uses the Paint program that comes with the Windows operating system. It is usually found in the programs list, in the sublist called Accessories. First, launch the Paint program, which looks as shown in the picture.

Second, select the region of the GoCore analysis that you wish to make a graphic of. Copy that region by either choosing Copy from Excel's Edit menu, or by clicking the right mouse button over the selected area and choosing Copy from the dropdown menu.

One alternative method is to use a screen capture tool to select a region of the screen to convert directly into a graphic. Some such tools are free, such as PrintKey.

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