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How to draw this kind of genome comparison circle figure

Like the Fig. 1 appear in this paper: Complete Genome Sequence and Transcriptomic Analysis of the Novel Pathogen Elizabethkingia anophelis in Response to Oxidative Stress. Thank you!

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updated by Ram Ram • written by flavobacteria • flavobacteria

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You mean this paper?

That looks like a Circos plot to me, the homepage is here. It's not trivial to use but there are numerous tutorials out there.

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written by Philipp Bayer Philipp Bayer

Thanks for linking the paper. If I can add a bit of a rant... These circos plots look beautiful but do they actually convey some message? Most of these plots cram so much data that I don't get much out of them.

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written by dariober dariober

I fully agree with you - Circos lets you add unlimited tracks so authors are often tempted into throwing every track of data they have in there, one track or type of information is enough for me. These plots are becoming very widespread so I assume there's be a bit of a public backlash soon.

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