circularMT
June 9, 2025 ยท View on GitHub
Command line version
This application is designed as a desktop application, however, a command line console version is available here. The command line version creates the same type of images as circularMT, but is less flexible. It is assumed circularMT-console will be used as part of a generic pipeline, while circularMT will be used to create images for papers or theses etc.
Contents
Introduction
circularMT is designed to create images of the genomic organisation of mitochondrial genomes that can be used to display the arrangement of the genes they encode. Images can be exported as 300 dpi TIFF, bitmap, PNG or JPEG files for use in reports, publications or a thesis. The maps can be circular like the one to the right or linear like the one below.
The data can be imported from a wide range of file formats such as *.fasta, *.mitos, *.gb, *.bed, *.seq, *.gtf and *.gff files. While circularMT can process these files, *.fasta and *.bed files in particular most conform to a set format not present in all files.
Once imported the resultant image can be rotated, the strands switched around and the features renamed, deleted and colour scheme changed to obtain the desired map.
Guide
The user guide is here.
Download
The prebuilt program can be downloaded here.
Running on Linux systems
The prebuilt programs can be run on Linux (and macOS) using the Wine package as described here.
Citation
Goodman SJ, Carr IM.
Drawing mitochondrial genomes with circularMT.
Bioinformatics. 2024 Jul 13;40(7):btae450.
doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae450.
Zenodo archive
An archived version of the first release is available from here:
