While I prefer the Python implementation simply because it fits nicely with the rest of my codebase, are we just reinventing the space-filling wheel? Current advantages of scurgen as I see them are the interactive zoom/pan/alpha and (eventually) clicking and displaying tracks. The integration with pybedtools is a plus for me, but that's just because I'm not as familiar with IRange in R.
I remember seeing this a while ago:
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.4/bioc/html/HilbertVis.html
(though I don't remember seeing the GUI part)
While I prefer the Python implementation simply because it fits nicely with the rest of my codebase, are we just reinventing the space-filling wheel? Current advantages of scurgen as I see them are the interactive zoom/pan/alpha and (eventually) clicking and displaying tracks. The integration with pybedtools is a plus for me, but that's just because I'm not as familiar with IRange in R.
Also see http://www.ebi.ac.uk/huber-srv/hilbert/gallery.html for more figures.