Visualizing Orthologs and Paralogs genes

Question

[Ric]

Hi I ran PorthoMCL and I would like to visualise the results may be as a circos plot. PorthoMCL contains two output files:

• Orthologs sample output file and
• Paralogs sample output.

To create the above outputs they used 12 genes as input.

What would be the best way to visualise the Orthologs and Paralogs genes?

Thank you in advance,

[Vitis]

A very interesting question! By definition, orthologs and paralogs are defined by comparing evolutionary relationships among genes to evolutionary relationships among species. Genes strictly follow species trees are orthologs. I would think a good visualization of orhologs and paralogs may involve phylogenetic trees and some diagrammatic representations of gene relationships. The rest would require some imagination and creativity.