SIMPLEGRAPH(1)

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💖 SIMPLEGRAPH(1) 💖

okay so bestie, this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and it's literally all about simplegraph.pl — the little script that gives you a dotplot / chaos style plot of your murasaki alignments. she's niche, she's useful, she's iconic. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

simplegraph.pl — Provides dotplot/chaos style plot of murasaki alignments

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

simplegraph.pl <murasaki ailgnment file> [-output=<output prefix>]

(yes the typo is canon, we don't touch the typo, the typo is part of her 💅)

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • murasaki alignment file — the main one that murasaki spits out. that's your input, no cap. feed her the real one.
  • --output — prefix for the output files. you pick the name, she does the rest ✨
  • --nostitch — don't draw lines for stitch file breaks. if you don't want those lil stitch lines showing up, this is your girl.
  • --signed — leave signedness alone. otherwise? absolute coordinates are drawn. so like, default behaviour flips things to absolute, and this flag is you saying "no bestie, keep the signs as they are" 🙈
  • --keepplot — keep the file that has all the gnuplot commands in it. super helpful if you wanna run gnuplot interactively yourself later, iykyk. she just leaves the receipts for you 🧾
  • --interactive=<S> — run gnuplot interactively for some set of sequences <S>. default is all of them, because why not.
  • --order=<S> — reorder the input sequences on the fly, or just consider a subset of them, your call. <S> can be a simple permutation like 201 — which literally means sequence 2, then 0, then 1, in that order. and if you've got more than 10 sequences, you can separate the digits with any non-digit character, like "2,0,1". slay.

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Draws graphs of murasaki alignments. that's it, that's the whole vibe. chaos plots, dotplots, graphs of your alignments. 🫶

💀 heads up: <S> permutations with more than 10 sequences need that non-digit separator, ok? don't come for me when 1002 reads as 1,0,0,2. use "10,0,2" or whatever non-digit char you vibe with.

and that's the whole page bestie, go make some pretty plots 🌈

this one's from perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-08-12, and she's filed under SIMPLEGRAPH(1) — periodt 💅✨

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