Plot virus genome with overlapping genes

[wilkox]

Plot virus genome with overlapping genes

[thackl]

Hi Julia,

I don't think that this can be easily done with gggenes. And I hope David won't mind me advertising a different package, but have a look at gggenomes . It's loosely based on gggenes, and for it's geom_gene you can set position="pile" (or position=position_pile(<more args>)) to automatically offset overlapping genes.

The data.frame for the genes would have to look slightly different, columns would be: seq_id gene start end strand, with strand as "+/-".

Cheers
Thomas

[jchariker]

Thank you very much, Thomas!
gggenomes handled the overlapping gene regions very well.
Julia

[wilkox]

Thanks Thomas – gggenomes is a great solution for this sort of plot.