Answers.Body: <p>Such a figure is called ideogram, or chromosome ideogram.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <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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Body: <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>
  
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  <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>
  
Tags: <ngs><visualization><genomics><figure-explanation><genetics>
Title: What is the name of this type of figure?
ThreadText: # 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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