[BioC] Gviz - Plot genes and data from - strand (3'-5') in 5'-3' direction

[Cook, Malcolm]

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 >From: bioconductor-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:bioconductor-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Janet Young
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 >Subject: [BioC] Gviz - Plot genes and data from - strand (3'-5') in 5'-3' direction
 >
 >Hi all,
 >
 >I stumbled across this discussion - I'm looking to do exactly the same thing, and wanted to put in a vote that this would be very useful
 >functionality.  When looking at a single gene of interest (or a handful), it's so much more intuitive to us biologists to present it 5'-to-3'.
 >
 >I've often made figures using UCSC's genome browser - if you're looking at any region in their browser, the "reverse" button right
 >below the display what we're looking for.  Plots are still shown relative to genomic coordinates, it's just that the end coord is plotted
 >on the left, and the start on the right.
 >
 >I could imagine some kind of "reverse=TRUE" option in plotTracks, without needing to mess with the underlying GRanges (or
 >whatever data the track is based on).  Not sure how hard that would be to code, though....
 >
 >thanks,
 >
 >Janet
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