circlize Implements and enhances circular visualization in R

Zuguang Gu; Lei Gu; Roland Eils; Matthias Schlesner; Benedikt Brors

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu393

circlize Implements and enhances circular visualization in R

Bioinformatics. 2014 Oct;30(19):2811-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu393. Epub 2014 Jun 14.

Authors

Zuguang Gu¹, Lei Gu², Roland Eils³, Matthias Schlesner², Benedikt Brors¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO) and Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO) and Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
² Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO) and Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
³ Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO) and Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO) and Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Division of Theoretical Bioinformatics, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg Center for Personalized Oncology (DKFZ-HIPO) and Department for Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics, Institute for Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology (IPMB) and BioQuant Center, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

PMID: 24930139
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu393

Abstract

Summary: 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 usage of low-level graphics functions such that self-defined high-level graphics can be easily implemented by users for specific purposes. Together with the seamless connection between the powerful computational and visual environment in R, circlize gives users more convenience and freedom to design figures for better understanding genomic patterns behind multi-dimensional data.

Availability and implementation: circlize is available at the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN): http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/circlize/

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Computational Biology / methods*
Computer Graphics
Genome
Genomics / methods*
Internet
Programming Languages
Software