Table 1.
Escaped vs. unescaped text import into excel.
Fig 1.
Screen capture of escape excel command line tool help text.
Unknown command line options, including—help, will abort the program with a brief usage statement, including command syntax and descriptions of supported option flags.
Fig 2.
Screen capture of escape excel windows excel Add-In.
Installation of the Excel Add-In allows for automatic processing of a selected file with Escape Excel, followed by importation of the escaped file into Excel. The Add-In adds a new Escape Excel tab to the Ribbon, from which non-default options and the file to be imported are selected.
Fig 3.
Screen capture of escape excel OS X application.
Files to be escaped can be drag-and-dropped onto the application, which will then automatically export escaped versions of the files.
Fig 4.
Screen capture of escape excel simple non-Galaxy web server.
Non-default options are selected via checkboxes. The file to be escaped is selected via the Browse file requestor. Clicking on the Submit button will prompt the user to download or open the resulting escaped file.
Fig 5.
Screen capture of escape excel Galaxy web server interface.
The results from an example data processing workflow are shown, ready for download (right pane), after uploading a file with the Upload Data tool (left pane) and processing the selected file with the Escape Excel tool (tool selected in the left pane, options selected in the middle pane). A step-by-step tutorial is provided underneath the form in the middle pane.