Fig. 1

Schema of the data flow in metabolic profiling. Ideally, the traceability of the data at each step of the process is required and should be published. However, much proprietary software bypass this flow by hiding most of the internal processes and making it more difficult for the user to share their data adequately. The proposed solution (in blue) consists of a connector package, hastaLaVista, and several specific tools built on a javascript framework for visualization of data, visualizer. It provides a graphical user interface for R with similar features as found in proprietary software