How to add a legend to the heatmap?

Question

[gil.hornung]

Hi, First of all, thank you for CNVkit. It is really professionally designed from a software engineering perspective, and you don't get that a lot in bioinformatics.

I want to add a legend to the CNVkit heatmap. How can I do that?

Thank you,

Gil Hornung

[gil.hornung]

I saw you added the legend in the current version. Thanks!

[WouterDeCoster]

Please use ADD COMMENT or ADD REPLY to answer to previous reactions, as such this thread remains logically structured and easy to follow. I have now moved your post but as you can see it's not optimal. Adding an answer should only be used for providing a solution to the question asked.

Answer 1

[Eric T.]

This is an open issue: https://github.com/etal/cnvkit/issues/36

For Figure 5 in this paper, the author manually added the legend to the PDF plot using Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator -- you can use this example as a guideline if you decide to do the same.