What do the colors stand for in the circos plot?

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Circular bacterial genome plots based on BLAST or NUCMER/PROMER alignments

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Open liaochenlanruo opened 2 years ago

liaochenlanruo commented 2 years ago

Hi, What do the red and blue lines in the figure "show links between two genomes" stand for? Thanks!@tpillone

UpalabdhaD commented 1 year ago

Hi, I have same question. What are those colour indicates in the figure?

tpillone commented 1 year ago

Hi @liaochenlanruo and @UpalabdhaD,

The colors indicate whether the aligned sequences are in the same orientation (blue) or inverted (red) in the two compared genomes.