[BioC] Gviz: axes related parameters

Steve Lianoglou lianoglou.steve at gene.com
Mon Feb 24 18:28:34 CET 2014


Hi,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Maxim <deeepersound at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since very recently I'm using Gviz for plotting coverage vectors from
> ChIP-seq data. I would like to stick to it as it draws gene models much
> nicer than my previous attempts drawing them with my own plotting
> functions. I wonder whether it is possible to have mountain/polygon or
> histogram tracks with a continuous x-axis that indeed cuts the y-axis, at
> best in the same color as the y-axis? This is because I personally like the
> Gviz plots a lot but my boss expects me to produce typical plots with a
> standard x/y coordinate system!

Can you give a concrete example of what you mean? I'm having a hard
time understanding what "cuts the y-axis" means.

Perhaps you could provide  graphic of how gviz plots your data now,
and another (perhaps using photoshop) of you you'd like it to look
like.

-steve

-- 
Steve Lianoglou
Computational Biologist
Genentech



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