Bands are defined using

 band CHRNAME BANDNAME BANDLABEL START End COLOR

Currently BANDNAME And BANDLABEL are Not used

Colors correspond To levels Of grey To match conventional shades Of banding found In genome browsers. For example, gpos25 Is a light grey.

For examples Of real karyotype files, see data/karyotype In the Circos distribution directory. Or data/karyotype In the course directory.