Lollipop plot

2017-11-17

A lollipop(棒糖) plot is an hybrid between a scatter plot and a barplot, which is used to show amino acid mutation along a protein sequence. An example as below:

lillopop gally also show the basic usage of python to achieve this.

# library
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import numpy as np
 
# create data
 x=range(1,41)
 values=np.random.uniform(size=40)
 
# stem function: first way
 plt.stem(x, values)
 plt.ylim(0, 1.2)
 #plt.show()
 
# stem function: If no X provided, a sequence of numbers is created by python:
 plt.stem(values)
 #plt.show()
 
# stem function: second way
 (markerline, stemlines, baseline) = plt.stem(x, values)
 plt.setp(baseline, visible=False)
 #plt.show()

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