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6 — 2D Data Tracks

6. Text Labels—Basic

circos.conf


<<include etc/colors_fonts_patterns.conf>>

<<include ideogram.conf>>
<<include ticks.conf>>

show_ticks* = no

karyotype   = data/karyotype/karyotype.human.txt

<image>
<<include etc/image.conf>>
</image>

chromosomes_units = 1000000
chromosomes       = hs1
chromosomes_display_default = no

<plots>

type       = text
color      = black
label_font = default
label_size = 24p

<plot>
file = data/6/text.genes.txt

r1   = 1r+200p
r0   = 1r

show_links     = yes
link_dims      = 0p,0p,70p,0p,10p
link_thickness = 2p
link_color     = red

</plot>

<plot>

file  = data/6/text.genes.znf.txt
r1    = 0.8r
r0    = 0.4r

show_links     = yes
link_dims      = 4p,4p,8p,4p,4p
link_thickness = 2p
link_color     = red

</plot>

</plots>

<<include etc/housekeeping.conf>>

bands.conf

show_bands            = yes
fill_bands            = yes
band_stroke_thickness = 2
band_stroke_color     = white
band_transparency     = 0

ideogram.conf


<ideogram>

<spacing>
default = 0.01r
break   = 0.5r
</spacing>

<<include ideogram.position.conf>>
<<include ideogram.label.conf>>
<<include bands.conf>>

radius*       = 0.825r

</ideogram>

ideogram.label.conf

show_label       = yes
label_font       = default
label_radius     = dims(image,radius)-30p
label_size       = 24
label_parallel   = yes
label_case       = lower
label_format     = eval(sprintf("chr%s",var(label)))

ideogram.position.conf

radius           = 0.775r
thickness        = 30p
fill             = yes
fill_color       = black
stroke_thickness = 2
stroke_color     = black

ticks.conf


show_ticks          = yes
show_tick_labels    = yes

<ticks>

radius           = dims(ideogram,radius_outer)
orientation      = out
label_multiplier = 1e-6
color            = black
size             = 20p
thickness        = 3p
label_offset     = 5p
format           = %d

<tick>
spacing        = 1u
show_label     = no
size           = 10p
</tick>

<tick>
spacing        = 5u
show_label     = yes
label_size     = 20p
size           = 15p
</tick>

<tick>
spacing        = 10u
show_label     = yes
label_size     = 24p
</tick>

</ticks>