Microbiome Maps are visualizations of microbial community profiles, and they can be created with the Jasper software. Jasper is a tool for creating rich, interactive microbiome maps that lets you explore your metagenomic samples like never before. Jasper uses a Hilbert Curve to place genomes on an interactive canvas that can display thousands of genomes at once.
I needed to create a series of diagnostic plots for a recent Data Mining project. I created the plots by hand using R — I say "by hand" to mean that I wrote a script to generate them, rather than using a tool such as Tableau. The reason is that the data for the plots came from the UCI Machine Learning Repository, and it just so happened that the particular datasets come bundled with the R standard library. :)
I have a love/hate relationship with Circos. I love the figures and plots that you can create with it, but I hate having to install it. We have machines that are not upgraded because someone somehow got it working on it, and we are afraid to have to go through the whole process of having to reinstall it. Its awful. Its great.
