BioCircos.js: an interactive Circos JavaScript library for biological data visualization on web applications

Bioinformatics. 2016 Jun 1;32(11):1740-2. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw041. Epub 2016 Jan 27.

Abstract

We here present BioCircos.js, an interactive and lightweight JavaScript library especially for biological data interactive visualization. BioCircos.js facilitates the development of web-based applications for circular visualization of various biological data, such as genomic features, genetic variations, gene expression and biomolecular interactions.

Availability and implementation: BioCircos.js and its manual are freely available online at http://bioinfo.ibp.ac.cn/biocircos/

Contact: rschen@ibp.ac.cn

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Graphics
  • Genomics
  • Software*