Circos
Circos is a free visualization tool for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations. Its visualizations are arranged in a circle to facilitate exploring relationships between objects and positions, which also has the benefit of offering a high data-to-ink ratio. Though promoted for the sciences, it is highly flexible and can visualize datasets from a wide variety of fields.
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Creator(s): Martin Krzywinski; Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
Creator's Site: http://www.bcgsc.ca/
Creator's Email: martink@bcgsc.ca
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- Type of analysis: Visualization Analysis Capture Creation Enrichment Interpretation
- Type of license: Free
- Web Usable: Software you Download and Install
- Ease of Use: Moderate
- Usage: Popular
- TaDiRAH Goals: Capture Creation Enrichment Analysis Interpretation
- TaDiRAH Methods: Visualization
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Circos also appears in Project Bamboo's DiRT, a registry of digital tools suitable for academic research. DiRT contains a wide range of tools and software searchable by task, such as annotation, content management, collaborative research, or authoring. It is an excellent resource for Digital Humanists seeking the right tool for the task at hand.
View Circos in DiRT:
http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/resources/circos
View the full site:
http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180319175616/http://circos.ca/
The website is no longer available but it can be viewed through wayback machine.