Closed lucblassel closed 2 years ago
it draws an input alignment to a png file, one sequence per line and one pixel per character. This can be useful to quickly visualize a large alignment where other viewers like bioJS or seaview might struggle.
There are 2 different color schemes:
The color scheme is selected from the alignment alphabet with the bioSyntax scheme being preferred in case of alphabet ambiguity.
I chose png as the command name but it might make sense to let the user decide the output format and rename the command to something like image.
png
image
Thanks @lucblassel !
Goal
it draws an input alignment to a png file, one sequence per line and one pixel per character. This can be useful to quickly visualize a large alignment where other viewers like bioJS or seaview might struggle.
Color choice
There are 2 different color schemes:
The color scheme is selected from the alignment alphabet with the bioSyntax scheme being preferred in case of alphabet ambiguity.
remarks
I chose
png
as the command name but it might make sense to let the user decide the output format and rename the command to something likeimage
.