circlize implements and enhances circular visualization in R

• Published in: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) Vol. 30; no. 19; pp. 2811 - 2812
• Main Authors: Gu, Zuguang, Gu, Lei, Eils, Roland, Schlesner, Matthias, Brors, Benedikt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 01.10.2014
• Subjects: Algorithms; Computational Biology - methods; Computer Graphics; Genome; Genomics - methods; Internet; Programming Languages; Software

Circular layout is an efficient way for the visualization of huge amounts of genomic information. Here we present the circlize package, which provides an implementation of circular layout generation in R as well as an enhancement of available software. The flexibility of this package is based on the...