J-Circos

SUMMARY: Circos plots are graphical outputs that display three dimensional
chromosomal interactions and fusion transcripts. However, the Circos plot tool is
not an interactive visualization tool, but rather a figure generator. For
example, it does not enable data to be added dynamically nor does it provide
information for specific data points interactively. Recently, an R-based Circos
tool (RCircos) has been developed to integrate Circos to R, but similarly,
Rcircos can only be used to generate plots. Thus, we have developed a Circos plot
tool (J-Circos) that is an interactive visualization tool that can plot Circos
figures, as well as being able to dynamically add data to the figure, and
providing information for specific data points using mouse hover display and zoom
in/out functions. J-Circos uses the Java computer language to enable, it to be
used on most operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Linux). Users can input data into
J-Circos using flat data formats, as well as from the Graphical user interface
(GUI). J-Circos will enable biologists to better study more complex chromosomal
interactions and fusion transcripts that are otherwise difficult to visualize
from next-generation sequencing data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: J-circos
and its manual are freely available at
http://www.australianprostatecentre.org/research/software/jcircos CONTACT:
j.an@qut.edu.au SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at
Bioinformatics online.

J-Circos: an interactive Circos plotter.

J-Circos is a tool to plot 3-dimensional, circular (Circos) figures for chromosomal interactions. J-Circos lets users zoom, to append data to figures, and show details on mouse hover.

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