Getting Circos Up and Running

First, understand the requirements. If you are a Windows user, read about pertinent differences between UNIX and Windows.

Download and install the software, then follow the tutorials.

Having trouble? Read and post to the Circos Google group.

If you are using Circos, please cite us: Krzywinski, M. et al. Circos: an Information Aesthetic for Comparative Genomics. Genome Res (2009) 19:1639-1645 | download citation

Circos is for visualizing genomic data, creating circular data visualizations and making things pretty (but not dumb) | who is citing Circos?

a project by Martin Krzywinski | Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Center

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