====== Filling in a tool form ======

HiPathia integrates two different pathway tools: **Differential signaling** and **Prediction**. Both pathway tools can be accessed from the main menu bar, by clicking on their respective names (see [[workflow|Workflow]]). 

The main page of a pathway tool is its filling in form. This form includes all the information and parameters that the tool needs to process a job. The form is divided in different panels:
  * Input data  
  * Design data
  * Species
  * Parameters
  * Pathways
  * Job information

==== Input data ====
In the input data panel, we must introduce the expression data and, optionally, the variant data.

The **expression data** can be either an: 
  * Expression matrix provided by yourself (see how to upload files in [[upload_your_data|Upload your data]]), or 
  * Expression vector taken from an expression database. In this case, we must choose the tissue database and tissue names.

The **variant data** must be a VCF file.



==== Design data ====
The design data panel allows you to choose the kind of experiment you want to perform. You can choose between two main experimental designs:
  * **Two group comparison**: 
  * **Correlation with continuous variable**:


===== Launching a job =====