WELCOME TO PLASMIDOMICS 0.2

This little Python script should help you to draw plasmids and vector maps for using them in theses, presentations or other publications. It natively supports PostScript output.

GENERAL USAGE

* Keep your drawing simple! 
* Recommended order of input: 
1. Main properties 
2. Bars and arrows 
3. Ticks 

* Draw most important items first! 
* "Undo" removes last element 

TRICKS

* Problems with overlapping labels: 
e.g. for arrows: 
1. Draw arrow 
2. Undo removes label
3. Draw a bar with an offset and with your required label 
4. Undo removes bar, but leaves label! 

* Very small arrows: 
1. Draw arrow 
2. 2 x Undo 
3. Draw as bar 
4. Undo (Leaves tip with label) 

CONVERSION OF OUTPUT PS (EXAMPLES)

TO PDF: epstopdf outplasmid.ps 
you'll need some version of ghostscript, since epstopdf is only a gs-script

TO PNG: convert -density 600 outplasmid.ps outplasmid.png
you'll need ImageMagick..

ImageMagick supports also JPG and many other file formats!

RESIZE/CROP/CONVERSION TO EPS

ps2eps --ignoreBB -l outplasmid.eps
will cut empty white space around the plasmid and ticks

Just try, it's easy! ;)

Homepage: http://www.bioprocess.org/plasmid/
