<p>Such a figure is called ideogram, or chromosome ideogram.</p>

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<p>This kind of visualization showing the banding patterns of chromosomes are called "<a href="https://www.dna-rainbow.org/ideograms" rel="nofollow noreferrer">chromosome ideograms</a>".  </p>

<p>You can use for example <a href="https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/IdeoViz" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IdeoViz</a> in R to generate them.  </p>

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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AADACL3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">This figure</a> comes from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AADACL3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this wiki page</a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/0Lqh5.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/0Lqh5.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>I googled "gene location figure" and "gene location plot", none gets similar results. I also tried search by image, none of the results is close.</p>

<p>so, what is the name of this type of figure?</p>

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What is the name of this type of figure?
# What is the name of this type of figure?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-08-02)

[This figure](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AADACL3) comes from [this wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AADACL3).

[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/0Lqh5.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/0Lqh5.png)

I googled "gene location figure" and "gene location plot", none gets similar results. I also tried search by image, none of the results is close.

so, what is the name of this type of figure?

**Tags:** ngs, visualization, genomics, figure-explanation, genetics

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2019-08-02. Score: 6 | Accepted answer

This kind of visualization showing the banding patterns of chromosomes are called "[chromosome ideograms](https://www.dna-rainbow.org/ideograms)".

You can use for example [IdeoViz](https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/IdeoViz) in R to generate them.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2019-08-02. Score: 3

Such a figure is called ideogram, or chromosome ideogram.


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