Related Experiment Video
Updated: Aug 18, 2025

Heuristic Mining of Hierarchical Genotypes and Accessory Genome Loci in Bacterial Populations
Published on: December 7, 2021
GeneticsMakie.jl: a versatile and scalable toolkit for visualizing locus-level genetic and genomic data
Minsoo Kim1,2,3, Daniel D Vo1, Michi E Kumagai1
1Department of Psychiatry, Semel Institute.
Summary:
With the continued deluge of results from genome-wide association and functional genomic studies, it has become increasingly imperative to quickly combine and visualize different layers of genetic and genomic data within a given locus to facilitate exploratory and integrative data analyses. While several tools have been developed to visualize locus-level genetic results, the limited speed, scalability and flexibility of current approaches remain a significant bottleneck. Here, we present a Julia package for high-performance genetics and genomics-related data visualization that enables fast, simultaneous plotting of hundreds of association results along with multiple relevant genomic annotations. Leveraging the powerful plotting and layout utilities from Makie.jl facilitates the customization and extensibility of every component of a plot, enabling generation of publication-ready figures.
Availability And Implementation:
The GeneticsMakie.jl package is open source and distributed under the MIT license via GitHub (https://github.com/mmkim1210/GeneticsMakie.jl). The GitHub repository contains installation instructions as well as examples and documentation for built-in functions.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
More Related Videos
10:44Inherent Dynamics Visualizer, an Interactive Application for Evaluating and Visualizing Outputs from a Gene Regulatory Network Inference Pipeline
Published on: December 7, 2021
09:37Navigating MARRVEL, a Web-Based Tool that Integrates Human Genomics and Model Organism Genetics Information
Published on: August 15, 2019
Related Concept Videos
Genetic Screens
Forward genetic screens
Forward or “classical” genetic screens involve creating random mutations in an organism’s DNA using radiation, mutagens, or insertion of additional bases, which...
Genetic Variation
Genes exist in different versions called alleles,...
Genomics
Genome-wide Association Studies-GWAS
GWAS does not require the identification of the target gene involved in...
Multiple Allele Traits
Statistical Software for Data Analysis and Clinical Trials