addYLabel

Label y-axis of heatmap or clustergram

Syntax

addYLabel(hm_cg_object,label)

addYLabel(hm_cg_object,label,Name,Value)

textObj = addYLabel(___)

Description

addYLabel(hm_cg_object,label) adds a label below the y-axis of the heatmap or clustergram.

addYLabel(hm_cg_object,label,Name,Value) specifies the label text object properties using name-value pair arguments. For example, addYLabel(hmObj,'Samples','Color','red','FontSize',12) displays the label in red 12-point font. You can specify multiple name-value pairs. Enclose each property name in quotes.

textObj = addYLabel(___) returns a text object textObj used as the label of the heatmap or clustergram using any of the input argument combinations from the previous syntaxes.

Examples

Add Custom Title and Labels to Heatmap

Load a sample of gene expression data.

load bc_train_filtered

Display a heatmap of the gene expression values for 4918 genes from 78 samples.

hmo = HeatMap(bcTrainData.Log10Ratio);

             Standardize: '[column | row | {none}]'
               Symmetric: '[true | false].'
            DisplayRange: 'Scalar.'
                Colormap: []
               ImputeFun: 'string -or- function handle -or- cell array'
            ColumnLabels: 'Cell array of strings, or an empty cell array'
               RowLabels: 'Cell array of strings, or an empty cell array'
      ColumnLabelsRotate: []
         RowLabelsRotate: []
                Annotate: '[on | {off}]'
          AnnotPrecision: []
              AnnotColor: []
       ColumnLabelsColor: 'A structure array.'
          RowLabelsColor: 'A structure array.'
       LabelsWithMarkers: '[true | false].'
    ColumnLabelsLocation: '[ top | {bottom} ]'
       RowLabelsLocation: '[ {left} | right ]'

Add a title to the heatmap in red.

title = addTitle(hmo,'Gene Expression Data','Color','red');

Change the title font size.

title.FontSize = 12;

Add labels to the x-axis and y-axis.

addXLabel(hmo,'Samples','FontSize',12);
addYLabel(hmo,'Genes','FontSize',12);

Input Arguments

hm_cg_object — Heatmap or clustergram object

HeatMap object | clustergram object

Heatmap or clustergram object, specified as a HeatMap object or clustergram object.

label — y-axis label

character vector | string

y-axis label, specified as a character vector or string.

Example: 'Genes'

Data Types: char | string

Output Arguments

textObj — y-axis label

Text object

y-axis label, returned as a Text object.

Version History

Introduced in R2009b