Excellent for Cheminformatics Scientists in drug discovery
April 02, 2019
Excellent for Cheminformatics Scientists in drug discovery
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
TIBCO Cloud Spotfire
Overall Satisfaction with TIBCO Spotfire
I am a PostDoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge with a speciality in computational chemistry (also known as Chem(o)informatics). I use Spotfire within the Department of Chemistry on an academic license as part of my daily job. It’s an excellent tool for data visualisation for drug discovery. It helps me to quickly share key trends from both chemical and biological data that I generate from my research with colleagues in different groups and departments within the university. The ability to import and process large datasets is essential in my field.
- Quick to plot complex graphs
- Capable of loading large data sets
- Customisable
- Add functionality for colour map (e.g offered in Seaborn Clustermap function in Python)
- Add functionality to calculate more cheminformatics-like columns like chemical scaffolds and similarity matrix calculations
- Improve trellis functionality
- Add functionality to add chemical structure within heatmap plot
Spotfire is a superior platform for data visitation in terms of the number of plots offered, and the ability to import and process far larger data sets (big data) which is an essential feature when working with data from the chemical and biological data domains. It is also easier to export multiple plots from projects to PDF or JPG then compared to other platforms.
- Easy to share data trends with colleagues
- Meetings are more productive when using interactive Spotfire windows
- Self-taught