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Biopiece: plot_karyogram

Description

[plot_karyogram] to see which) and it is possible to depict chromosome positions based on Biopiece records in the stream. The output is SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and you need a SVG viewer to see the plot such as Firefox or Inskape (Inkscape can also be used to modify the resulting image).

Read more about Inkscape here:

http://www.inkscape.org

Usage

... | plot_karyogram [options]

Options

[-?          | --help]                 #  Print full usage description.
[-x          | --no_stream]            #  Do not emit records.
[-o <file>   | --data_out=<file>]      #  Write result to file.
[-g <string> | --genome=<string>]      #  Genome layout of karyogram: hg18|mm9
[-f <string> | --feat_color=<string>]  #  Color of features            -  Default=black
[-I <file!>  | --stream_in=<file!>]    #  Read input from stream file  -  Default=STDIN
[-O <file>   | --stream_out=<file>]    #  Write output to stream file  -  Default=STDOUT
[-v          | --verbose]              #  Verbose output.

Examples

To plot a karyogram with some positions indicated from a BED file, do:

read_bed -i test.bed | plot_karyogram -xg hg18 -o karyogram.svg

And the result will look like this:

http://biopieces.googlecode.com/svn/wiki/karyogram.png

See also

[list_genomes]

[read_bed]

Author

Martin Asser Hansen - Copyright (C) - All rights reserved.

[email protected]

August 2007

License

GNU General Public License version 2

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

Help

[plot_karyogram] is part of the Biopieces framework.

http://www.biopieces.org

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