Learning Circos
Bioinformatics and Genome Analysis
Institut Pasteur Tunis Tunisia, December 10 – December 11, 2018
v2.00 6 Dec 2018 Download PDF slides
v2.00 6 Dec 2018
A 2- or 4-day practical mini-course in Circos, command-line parsing and scripting. This material is part of the Bioinformatics and Genome Analysis course held at the Institut Pasteur Tunis.
Quick links
BCGA 2018 | 1-day Circos course | Circos documentation best practices getting started | Brewer palette swatches | Color resources | Nature Methods Points of View Points of Significance
Circos case studies
Tuesday 11 December 2018 — Day 2
9h00 - 10h30 | Lecture 1 — Drawing the human genome
11h00 - 12h30 | Lecture (practical) 2 — Downloading and drawing human genes
14h00 - 15h30 | Lecture (practical) 3 — Downloading and drawing segmental duplications
16h00 - 18h00 | Lecture (practical) 4 — Creating an image montage
Concepts covered
drawing the human genome, karyotypes included in Circos distribution, generating random data with randomdata, heatmaps, color lists, interpolating colors with colorinterpolate, drawing human genes, drawing segmental duplications as links, creating image montages
Your second day. Today will be a series of challenges. At the end, you'll create your own unique sourvenir Circos poster.
