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Manhattan style plots

Enrico Cocchi edited this page Dec 7, 2022 · 3 revisions

The main focus of this plots is to visualize all/specific variants in your VCF file. This is the aim of createVCFplot() function.

Once you loaded plotVCF into your R session, you just need to point it to your VCF file and run the function on it:

VCF <- './inst/extdata/exampleVCF.vcf.gz'

createVCFplot( VCF )

This is the very basic option, but you can plot subgroups based on position, sample, gene and/or exon. Let's take a look at its many different options you have!

Please note: all plots in examples below are generated from the same VCF file, that you can find here