This document provides an overview of Circos, a software package for visualizing data in circular forms. It discusses Circos' technical requirements, data formats, and configuration files. The document also provides examples of commands to generate Circos plots from data files.
1. Genome Visualization:
Akkal Bahadur Bist
AI Developer || Data Science Intern
BSC.CSIT Swastik College, Tribhuvan
University
Email: akkalbist55@gmail.com
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CIRCOS PLOT
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2. Outlines
❖ Circos: Introduction
❖ Technical Requirements
❖ Chromosomes and Ideogram
❖ Standardization
❖ Circos Configuration file format
❖ Circos Distribution
❖ Circos Process
❖ Data Format
❖ Circos Plot: Examples
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3. Introduction
● Software package for visualizing data in circular form.
● If you are researcher, data analyst, visual artist in large
data sets, circos is for you.
● Data represent level wise in circular form.
What is circos?
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● It’s adopted biological
scientific community
worldwide.
● It appeared in many top
scientific journals.
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11. standardization
● All input files are in “txt” format
● Output form “PNG” or “SVG” format
● It’s require “configuration” files in “conf” format
● Conf specify circos layout & data format
● It does not do any analysis only visualization
● Run on command line 11
12. Circos Configuration “.conf”
file format
● Image generation process is driven by a central
configuration file.
● Circos configuration “.conf” file is text file with some
parameter that define the image, including input files,
image size, coloring, formatting etc.
● This file is usually import other configuration files Eg.12
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❖ Configuration syntax
➢ Variable assignment
variable = value
➢ Block
<ideogram>
thickness = 30p
fill
= yes
…
</ideogram>
❖ Global vs Local
<plots> #start of plots block
type = heatmap
min = 0
max = 1
<plot> #start of inner plot block
file = data.1.txt
r1 = 0.6r
r0 = 0.5r
…
</plot> #end of inner plot block
<plot>
file = data.2.txt
r1 = 0.7r
r0 = 0.6r
…
</plot>
</plots> #end of plots block
Global to all
plots
Specific to do data.1.txt.plot
16. Data Format
Data format for different tracks for
circos plot is 4 column data.
char start stop values
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Before creating any plot “chr” need
to be change to “hs” header should
be removed .
hs10 60001 134200 CALY
hs10 134201 234000 ------
hs10 234001 317600 UNC5B
hs10 317601 445100 …….
……………………………………………..
chr10 60001 134200
chr10 134201 234000
chr10 234001 317600
chr10 317601 445100
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