At Steve’s lab meeting, I came across with this paper, published on Genome Research. It seems to be a good piece of software with full length documentation. Circos has been used in many scientific publications. However, to make it work, it is not trivial.

I am trying to document what I have and hopefully, I can make it working in my hand. Fingers crossed 🙂

Since I am the root on SeqBig, I am testing the installation on this machine. Really, the goal would be if I could create a virtualmachine so that I can give it to whoever wants to use it.

Step 1. Get all the CPAN modules installed. Not trivial though..

Honestly, it did not work out as well as I expected. Therefore, ONLY way I made it work is using my virtual machine.

Here is another related page that has more information.

In fact, there are many groups who are consistently searching for tools for draw a circular genome results like circos, i.e. a paper published on Bioinformatics call circleator does similar plots also.