{"id":2653,"date":"2009-09-05T13:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T18:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2653"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:49:36","slug":"circos-visualize-genomes-and-genomic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2653","title":{"rendered":"Circos &#8211; visualize genomes and genomic data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Picture-20-300x300.png\" alt=\"Picture 20\" title=\"Picture 20\" width=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Stan pointed me to a neat circular visualization tool, <a href=\"http:\/\/mkweb.bcgsc.ca\/circos\/\">Circos &#8211; visualize genomes and genomic data<\/a>. As the site title says, Circos is for visualizing genomic information, but the circular model strikes me a applicable to other domains. In fact, Camilo Arango in Computing Science, just defended a MSc thesis on a Course Browser design that uses a circular design to show requisites between courses. While the circular design is attractive, I wonder if it is misleading for linear information, like a text, if one wraps the text around the edge of the circle, the way TextArc does.<\/p>\n<p>The Circos site has an interesting slide show on <a href=\"http:\/\/mkweb.bcgsc.ca\/talks\/datavisualization\/\">visualizing quantitative information<\/a> by Martin Krzywinski that starts with Tufte and then shows different genomic visualization models leading up to Circos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Circos genomics visualization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playful-or-cool","category-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2653"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2674,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2653\/revisions\/2674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}