Introduction

Circos is free software licensed under GPL. It is written in Perl, can be deployed on any operating system for which Perl is available (e.g. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other UNIX flavours), and produces bitmap (PNG) and vector (SVG) images using plain text configuration and input files. Circos was originally conceived for visualizing genomic data such as alignments and structural variation. Over time, support was added for 2D data tracks such as line, scatter, heatmap and histogram plots.

For more information about Circos, visit the Circos official website.

Programming language: Perl

Brief description: Circos is free software that can run on any operating system with a Perl interpreter, such as Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other UNIX-like systems.

Open source license: GPL