If you are using Circos, please cite as

Krzywinski, M. et al. Circos: an Information Aesthetic for Comparative Genomics. Genome Res (2009) 19:1639-1645. (download XML Endnote citation)

Use Circos to create concise, explanatory, unique and print-ready visualizations of your data.

Current version is 0.52.

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Current version is 0.52.
This is a bug release. Issues with ideogram ordering and axis breaks have been addressed.
Current tools version is v0.13.
New is categoryviewer, used to visualize categorical data and a significantly updated tableviewer. Read about the theory and practise of visualizing tabular data.

Circos Online An online version of Circos is now available to visualize tabular data. Turn your tables into informative images!


3x3 table
4x4 table

6x6 table
8x8 table

Circos in Conde Nast Portfolio

Conde Nast Porfolio features an article on personalized genome sequencing. An image by Circos appears in a double-page spread. The art direction called for something primarily artistic and visually appealing, but also connected to the content of the article.

Circos in American Scientist

An image created by Circos appears on the cover of the Sept/Oct issue of American Scientist.

The image accompanies an article by Elaine Ostrander about dog genetics and illustrates the deep sequence similarity between the human and dog genomes. Read about the figure.

Circos in New York Times

Circos is used to generate a visualization of the 2007 Democratic and Republican Debates. The image was created by Jonathan Corum and Farhana Hossain, who discuss how the image was conceptualized.

Circos is featured in the Science section of the New York Times (22 Jan 2007).

Circos Presentations

Circos - a data viewer with comparative genomics in mind Circos presentation - Martin Krzywinski

Visualizing quantitative information - featuring work of Tufte Circos presentation - Martin Krzywinski

Circos Posters

A variety of Circos posters are available.

Screenshots

Images created with Circos. Some of these were created with older versions of Circos — those look a little rough :)

For other examples, see the tutorial images.

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