Summary

This chapter taught us about some packages for working with and visualizing biological data. In particular, we learned how to plot phylogenetic trees, protein structures, and multiple sequence alignments. We learned how to explore the last two using different complexity levels by taking advantage of various packages from the Julia ecosystem, such as MIToS, through Plots recipes, or BioMakie in the Makie ecosystem. Lastly, we saw an example of how to use interactive components from the DashBio package, which offers a large spectrum of bioinformatics-related visualizations.

In the next chapter, we will learn about the different plot parts when working with Plots, Makie, and Gadfly. This will be extremely useful when customizing our figures.