How to visualize a list of genes on their chromosomal position?

Question

[Egon Willighagen]

If you go to Ensembl, I can see the location of a gene in the genome browser at various levels. One of these levels is the position on the full (schematic) chromosome. But if I have a list of genes and want to see their distribution over one or more chromosomes, is there a tool that can visualize this for me? I am happy to look up the positions myself, e.g. with the Ensembl SPARQL endpoint, and use that as input. But I still need some tool to plot these genes on nice graphical representation of chromosomes. What are my options?

[Jimbou]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/tools/gdp/

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

Egon; did you see Drawing Chromosome Ideograms With Data ?

[Egon Willighagen]

I guess I was not using the right search words...