Difference between genomes in circular graph

Question

[bio_student]

Hi guys,

I have 10 genomes and I need to visualise them in circular graph and I want to show difference between these genomes. For example if there are two mutations in one gene I would like to have a coloured sign in this place. Can you tell me which software should I use or how to do it?

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

I need to visualise them in circular graph

circos http://circos.ca/

[theobroma22]

Take care though...Doing all 10 in one circle may be a bit unreadable, hard to interpret.

[Samarth Kulshrestha]

You can use CIRCOS, one of the popular visualization tool, written in PERL as suggested by Pierre. There is one more R package which can help you ie.CIRCUS.

Answer 1

[Joe]

I would strongly suggest using BRIG (Blast Ring Image Generator) instead of Circos. It gives slightly more granular images in my opinion, with much less messing about.

Answer 2

[Selenocysteine]

You can use this tool which is based on CIRCOS, but easier to use if you are not very proficient with coding stuff: http://omgenomics.com/circa/

[Medhat]

It is not free though.

Answer 3

[Alex Reynolds]

You might consider investigating if a hive plot would give you a less convoluted figure.