# circos

## Summary

+ **Module Name:** circos
+ **Support Level:** Secondary Support
+ **Software Access Level:** Open Access
+ **Home Page:** [http://circos.ca](http://circos.ca)

## Software Description

Circos is a software package for visualizing data and information. It
visualizes data in a circular layout --- this makes Circos ideal for
exploring relationships between objects or positions. Circos is ideal
for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations with a
high data-to-ink ratio, richly layered data and pleasant symmetries.
Circos is flexible. Although originally designed for visualizing genomic
data, it can create figures from data in any field.
## General Linux

To load this module for use in a Linux environment, you can run the command:

	module load circos

Depending on where you are working, there may be more than one version of circos available.
To see which modules are available for loading you can run:

	module avail circos