Include IDs in the Circos SVG, to facilitate interactive views

[GrubLord]

Hi there,

I'm a researcher from the Garvan Institute, and I am interested in adapting your circos-generating code to add a bit of metadata regarding what data is being referenced by each element, so as to allow something like Raphaël to navigate the diagram live in a web view, and allow me to use the circos as a navigation tool for the data output by GMS.

What's the procedure for joining your repository, or forking it, and adding this feature? Would you be open to my working with you and coding this extra metadata into your SVGs? Would you object to my developing a visualisation module and potentially contributing it back to the project in future?

I appreciate any guidance you can offer, and would like to join your group to work on this issue directly, if possible.

Best regards,

Dr. Liviu Constantinescu
Information Architect
Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics
Garvan Institute of Medical Research

[gatoravi]

Hi Liviu,
Thanks for your message. We'd be super excited for any contribution that you might have. Were you thinking of a specific Circos plot? Our ClinSeq pipeline generates a Circos image, the code for that is here. The settings for the Circos file are generated in that Perl module which basically outputs a ".conf" file which Circos uses, does this sound like what you were looking for?

The procedure to contribute would be to make a pull request to the appropriate repository which could be gms or genome
Avi