macrosyntR: Draw Ordered Oxford Grids and Chord Diagrams
Sami El Hilali, Richard R. Copley · 2023
Use standard genomics file format (BED) and a table of orthologs to illustrate synteny conservation at the genome-wide scale. Significantly conserved linkage groups are identified as described in Simakov et al. (2020) and displayed on an Oxford Grid (Edwards (1991) ) or a chord diagram as in Simakov et al. (2022) . The package provides a function that uses a network-based greedy algorithm to find communities (Clauset et al. (2004) ) and so automatically order the chromosomes on the plot to improve interpretability.