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.
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
Additional material — Day 3
9h00 - 10h30 | Lecture 1 — Visualization strategies
11h00 - 12h30 | Lecture (practical) 2 — Parsing clustal alignments on command line
14h00 - 15h30 | Lecture (practical) 3 — Parsing clustal alignments with Perl
16h00 - 18h00 | Lecture (practical) 4 — Plotting clustal alignments
designing effective visualizations, parsing clustal alignments, advanced Perl techniques, using Circos tools
Watch my video series about data visualization
http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/essentials.of.data.visualization/
Read my Scientific American article about creating a small visualization that compares mammalian genomes and about how you can fit a lot of data in a small space and still retain legibility.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visual/similarities-between-human-and-chimp-genomes-revealed-by-hilbert-curve/
Explore the handout/ directory in the course materials and read about visual acuity and how to handle image resolution when creating figures.
Learn about color in my short Color Palettes Matter presentation.