marianattestad

4 ms·

1. 1.▲
   by marianattestad 5y ago

   Visualization software for genomics scientists at https://omgenomics.com/circa I made it during a 2017 sabbatical between my PhD and getting a "real job" and it's been passive ever since. Tech stack: * D3.js
2. 2.▲
   by marianattestad 8y ago

   Yup, I sell my software on Gumroad too and would recommend it. They even have support for software license numbers, though I haven't used that myself.
3. 3.▲
   by marianattestad 8y ago

   I do happen to currently hold a data visualization job at a genomics software company, which traces back partly to when I gave a talk there that included Circa and other visualization tools I built, the rest of which are open source and fre
4. 4.▲
   by marianattestad 8y ago

   I chose the one-time cost model for several reasons: 1) the way scientists get reimbursed from grants is difficult for recurring purchases, 2) one-time pricing is easy to do and fits well with desktop software, 3) Circa is a product scienti
5. 5.▲
   by marianattestad 8y ago

   http://omgenomics.com/circa Circa is an easy-to-use tool for building circos plots with genomics data. I built the visualization piece (and most of the UI) with D3.js and made it into a desktop app with Electron. Initially
6. 6.▲
   by marianattestad 9y ago

   Author here: I made Circa because creating circos plots was very difficult and time-consuming when I had to do it during my PhD research. Increasingly people who have genomic data to show are biologists who can't or won't spend d
7. 7.▲
   Circa: A GUI for making circos plots with genomics data--biology [video](youtube.com)

   3 points by marianattestad 9y ago|1 comments
8. 8.▲
   by marianattestad 10y ago

   Nice article. Good explanation of what some of the major numbers and features mean in a practical sense.