CGView is a circular genome viewer. You can give it features encoded in XML files, and it generates a display of those features along a circular genome fragment.

Basic Structure

CGView accepts three different file formats, but we'll focus on XML here. The basic structure is this:

• CG View settings
  • Legend (optional)
    • LegendItem (text that you want in a legend)
  • FeatureSlot 1 (this is a circular track)
    • Feature in FeatureSlot 1
    • Feature in FeatureSlot 1
  • FeatureSlot 2
    • Feature in FeatureSlot 2
      ...
  • FeatureSlot N
    • Feature in FeatureSlot N
      ...

In XML, this has the basic form:

Helper Scripts