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PyOncoPrint: a python package for plotting OncoPrints

  • Jeongbin Park (School of Biomedical Convergence Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Nagarajan Paramasivam (Computational Oncology, Molecular Precision Oncology Program, National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ))
  • Received : 2022.12.27
  • Accepted : 2023.03.10
  • Published : 2023.03.31
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Abstract

OncoPrint, the plot to visualize an overview of genetic variants in sequencing data, has been widely used in the field of cancer genomics. However, still, there have been no Python libraries capable to generate OncoPrint yet, a big hassle to plot OncoPrints within Python-based genetic variants analysis pipelines. This paper introduces a new Python package PyOncoPrint, which can be easily used to plot OncoPrints in Python. The package is based on the existing widely used scientific plotting library Matplotlib, the resulting plots are easy to be adjusted for various needs.

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This work was supported by a 2-Year Research Grant of Pusan National University.

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