
Successive Duplications in Paramecium
This unusual, but effective, Circos image shows successive duplications in the Paramecium genome.
The exterior circle displays all chromosome-sized scaffolds, and the three interior circles show the reconstructed sequences obtained by fusion of the paired sequences from each previous step.
57 2006 Global trends of whole-genome duplications revealed by the ciliate Paramecium tetraurelia Nature 444 (7116) 171-178.// aury-paramecium

Circos Maps Cancer Landscapes
Nature features an article by Heidi Ledford, The Cancer Genome Challenge, which discusses the progress and challenges of identifying structural variation signatures in cancer genomes.
Circos images are used throughout the piece, taken from the COSMIC project (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer).
// cancer-genome-challenge


Circos Maps Cancer Landscapes
Nature features an article by Heidi Ledford, The Cancer Genome Challenge, which discusses the progress and challenges of identifying structural variation signatures in cancer genomes.
Circos images are used throughout the piece, taken from the COSMIC project (Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer).
// cancer-genome-challenge

Circos Appears on the Cover of Nature Biotechnology
An illustration of genome annotations of the E coli genome appears on the cover of Nature Biotechnology (vol 27, no 11). The image accompanies the article The transcription unit architecture of the Escherichia coli genome by Cho et al.
23 2009 The transcription unit architecture of the Escherichia coli genome Nature biotechnology 27 (11) 1043-1049.// nat-biotech-cho



Successive Duplications in Paramecium
A visual representation of ancestry analysis of 85 dog breeds and Eurasian gray wolves.
17 2010 Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication Nature 464 (7290) 898-902.// vonholdt-dogs

Circos Illustrates Genome Structure of Maize
The Maize sequence paper uses Circos to show genome structure and annotations. Links inside the circle show homologous sites of duplicated gene blocks.
40 2009 The B73 maize genome: complexity, diversity, and dynamics Science 326 (5956) 1112-1115// maize
Below are Circos' citations in the scientific literature (see published images).