title: ggbio: an R package for extending the grammar of graphics for genomic data.
abstract: We introduce ggbio, a new methodology to visualize and explore genomics annotations and high-throughput data. The plots provide detailed views of genomic regions, summary views of sequence alignments and splicing patterns, and genome-wide overviews with karyogram, circular and grand linear layouts. The methods leverage the statistical functionality available in R, the grammar of graphics and the data handling capabilities of the Bioconductor project. The plots are specified within a modular framework that enables users to construct plots in a systematic way, and are generated directly from Bioconductor data structures. The ggbio R package is available at http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc/html/ggbio.html.
authors.forename: Tengfei
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.forename: Dianne
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lawrence
mesh_terms: D002460:Cell Line; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D005091:Exons; D005260:Female; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D012984:Software