Figure 2

Assembly-reference comparison via Circos graph. Circos graphs can be used to compare between an assembled genome and a reference genome. Here we present the comparison of a newly assembled draft HSV-1 genome containing five scaffolds on the left semicircle (colored bands), to the HSV-1 reference genome (NCBI JN555585) on the right semicircle (grey band). Each color represents one assembled scaffold, and the grey band represents the reference genome. The gaps between scaffolds on the left indicate the breakpoints between contigs that could not be joined by the VirAmp algorithms. These breakpoints indicate insufficient information, which could result from insertions, inconsistent information about overlaps between two contigs, or regions that could not be assembled. Note that the length of the gap remains the same for each breakpoint; this does not represents the length of an actual gap. Each tick mark represents 0.5 kb, with labels included every 5 kb, and bold type every 25 kb.