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Circos Maps Cancer Landscapes

Nature features an article by Heidi Ledford, The Cancer Genome Challenge, which discusses the progress and challenges of identifying structural variation signatures in cancer genomes.

Circos images are used throughout the piece, taken from the COSMIC project (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer).

6Ledford H 2010 Big science: The cancer genome challenge Nature 464 (7291) 972-974.

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Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

The task was to visually represent about 60 relationships shared between 35 characters. The tableviewer utility, which applies Circos to visualizing tabular data, was perfect for creating the illustration. And thus, Circos says goodbye to the table.

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Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

The task was to visually represent about 60 relationships shared between 35 characters. The tableviewer utility, which applies Circos to visualizing tabular data, was perfect for creating the illustration.

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DHL Uses Circos

Deutsche Post DHL uses Circos in a printed advertisement for the Mail & Logistics Group

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DHL Uses Circos

Deutsche Post DHL uses Circos in a printed advertisement for the Mail & Logistics Group

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Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

In collaboration with Christy Sheppard, Wired's Art Director, Martin Krzywinski created the illustration for the April 22 2010 issue.

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Circos Collaborates with Wired

When Wired needed an inforgraphic to illustrate the complex world of relationships on the TV Series Lost, it turned to Circos.

In collaboration with Christy Sheppard, Wired's Art Director, Martin Krzywinski created the illustration for the April 22 2010 issue.

// wired-01

Circos Maps Cancer Landscapes

Nature features an article by Heidi Ledford, The Cancer Genome Challenge, which discusses the progress and challenges of identifying structural variation signatures in cancer genomes.

Circos images are used throughout the piece, taken from the COSMIC project (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer).

6Ledford H 2010 Big science: The cancer genome challenge Nature 464 (7291) 972-974.

// cancer-genome-challenge
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Guides to Circos

If you're interested in exploring Circos' features, here you'll find several guides, in the forms of posters, that highlight key features.

Circos - an information aesthetic for comparative genomics - presented at Genome Informatics 2008, Hinxton, UK (300 x 186)
Circos - an information aesthetic for comparative genomics - presented at Genome Informatics 2008, Hinxton, UK (300 x 186)
Circos - an information aesthetic for comparative genomics - presented at Genome Informatics 2008, Hinxton, UK (300 x 186)

To see how Circos can be used, see the archive of example images and published images. The tutorials will get you up and running.