% my $url_root = $m->comp("SELF:img_url_dir");

<h1>Visual Guide to Features of Circos</h1>

<p>A visual guide to Circos (Circos - an information aesthetic for comparative genomics) presents some of the capabilities of Circos and illustrates its application in the field of comparative genomics and genome visualization.

<p>Download: 
<a href="<% $url_root %>/circos-visualguide-med.png">medium bitmap (7Mb)</a>
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<a href="<% $url_root %>/poster-visual-guide-bitmap.zip">huge bitmap (46Mb)</a>
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<a href="<% $url_root %>/circos-poster-visual-guide-pdf.zip">PDF (40Mb)</a>
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<a href="<% $url_root %>/circos-poster-visual-guide-illustrator.zip">Illustrator (20Mb)</a> (PDF and Illustrator files are very complex)
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<p><a href="<% $url_root %>/circos-visualguide-med.png">
<% $m->comp("SELF:show_image", file=>"circos-guide.png", alt=>"Circos - an information aesthetic for comparative genomics - presented at Genome Informatics 2008, Hinxton, UK", caption=>"Circos - an information aesthetic for comparative genomics - presented at Genome Informatics 2008, Hinxton, UK", zoom=>"circos-visualguide-med.png") %>
</a>

<p>The image in this poster has been used on the cover of The Embo Journal, as well as in the Science Express project.

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<% $m->comp("SELF:show_image", file=>"circos-embo.jpg", alt=>"", caption=>"13 May 2009 | The image from my <a href='$url_root/guide/visual'>Circos Visual Guide Poster</a> was used for the <a href='http://www.nature.com/emboj/journal/v28/n9/index.html'>cover of the Embo Journal</a>", width=>310, link=>"http://www.nature.com/emboj/journal/v28/n9/index.html") %>
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<% $m->comp("SELF:show_image", file=>"zukunft-small.jpg", alt=>"", caption=>"I am delighted and honoured to have Circos visualizations included as part of the <a href='http://www.expedition-zukunft.org/'>Science Express</a> project. Briefly, this is a public education effort lead by Max Planck institute to raise and foster science awareness and education to the public. The project is a 13 car train, lavishly repurposed into a rolling interactive science exhibition. For those of you who can't experience the project first-hand, there is a <a href='http://www.expedition-zukunft.org/science_express/virtuelle_tour/'>wonderful virtual tour</a>.", width=>600, zoom=>"zukunft.jpg") %>
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