The team of the Core Facility Life Science Computing of the Leibniz Institute on Aging – Fritz Lipmann Institute e.V. (FLI) celebrates the release of the new tool, IntersectMe.
With this powerful, interactive web tool, comparing and analyzing multiple data sets has never been easier. Whether you're a biologist looking at overlapping genes in different experiments or a social scientist exploring interaction networks.
The tool was developed by Dr. Bilal Mustafa, postdoc in the Core Facility Life Science Computing headed by Dr. Karol Szafranski. The idea came from the Core Facility itself, during search for a simple tool for visualizing gene analysis results.
IntersectMe offers two graphical types to display overlaps: either a Venn diagram – for a maximum of five lists – or, alternatively, an UpSet plot. Publication-ready images can be downloaded directly from the results page, in the formats PNG, SVG or as a CSV list.
Another offer by IntersectMe is the application of set functions to generate new combined lists. Possible set operations include unions, intersections, exclusive sets (symmetrical difference) or oriented difference.
Data privacy is fully protected by IntersectMe. Any data that are sent to the IntersectMe server is discarded after the results are sent back to the client computer for display.
The usage of IntersectMe is intuitive and user-friendly. Numerous parameters are available to parameterize the diagrams according to desired preferences. Last but not least, no registration is required for use.
Test the new tool, which you can find at the following link:
