Background
Found ThreadTone a while back. Converting it work output circos-compatible configuration was pretty trivial
Only notable difficulty was that bezier_radius was set, and it was not clear how that was propagated. So direct experimentation was used to identify reasonable values.
<colors>
<<include etc/colors.conf>>
</colors>
<fonts>
<<include etc/fonts.conf>>
</fonts>
<<include etc/housekeeping.conf>>
<<include ideogram.conf>>
<<include ticks.conf>>
# Use a human karyotype for fun
karyotype = data/human.txt
<image>
dir = /input/
file = circos.png
radius = 1500p
background = white
angle_offset = 0
</image>
# Reduce this to 10 for nicer tick spacing
chromosomes_units = 10
# We just use chr1 in the plot
chromosomes = hs1
# A custom link colour is defined in order to take advantage of opacity
<colors>
customcolor = 60,60,60,0.6
</colors>
<links>
# For some reason, 1r was not a desierable value.
radius = 0.99r
# Increasing this to 1 will change when the bend happens, and as a
# result make the image smaller.
crest = 0
<link segdup>
show = yes
color = customcolor
thickness = 3p
file = data/links.txt
</link>
</links>Running
$ make light
$ xdg-open circos/circos.png
Light Plot
