taxonomy_krona_chart

taxonomy_krona_chart produces hierarchical pie-chart visualizations of taxonomic profiles to represent hierarchical relationships and relative abundances in microbiome and metagenomics datasets derived from next-generation sequencing (NGS).

Key Features:

• Visualization: Transforms complex taxonomic data into pie-chart views that display hierarchical relationships and relative abundances within microbial communities.
• Integration with computational pipelines: Integrates with Galaxy-based frameworks such as Orione and with workflows including bacterial resequencing, de novo assembly, scaffolding, RNA-Seq, gene annotation, and metagenomics to visualize results from diverse bioinformatics tools.
• Reproducibility and transparency: Supports reproducible workflows by interoperating with publicly available research software and pipelines and by preserving analysis details for inspection and reuse.

Scientific Applications:

• Microbiome Research: Used to analyze the composition and diversity of microbial communities across environmental and host-associated samples.
• Biomedical Research: Applied to visualize complex datasets produced by high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies for large-scale biomedical analyses.

Methodology:

Operates within interoperable frameworks (e.g., the Orione Galaxy-based platform) and leverages publicly available research software and pipelines to construct reproducible workflows for NGS microbiology data analysis.