Supporting data for "clevRvis: Visualization Techniques for Clonal Evolution"

A thorough analysis of clonal evolution commonly requires integration of diverse sources of data, e.g. karyotyping, next-generation sequencing and clinical information. Subsequent to actual reconstruction of clonal evolution, detailed analysis and interpretation of the results is essential. Often, however, only few tumor samples per patient are available. Thus, information on clonal development and therapy effect may be incomplete. Furthermore, analysis of bi-allelic events - considered of high relevance with respect to disease course - can commonly only be realized by time-consuming analysis of the raw results and even raw sequencing data.<br>We developed clevRvis, a R/Bioconductor package providing an extensive set of visualization techniques for clonal evolution. In addition to common approaches for visualization, clevRvis offers a unique option for allele-aware representation: plaice plots. Bi-allelic events may be visualized and inspected at a glance. Analyzing four public data sets, we show that plaice plots help to gain new insights into tumor development and investigate hypotheses on disease progression and therapy resistance. In addition to a graphical user interface, automatic phylogeny-aware color coding of the plots, and an approach to explore alternative trees, clevRvis provides two algorithms for fully automatic time point interpolation and therapy effect estimation. Analyzing two public data sets, we show that both approaches allow for valid approximation of a tumor's development in between measured time points.<br>clevRvis represents a novel option for user-friendly analysis of clonal evolution, contributing to gaining new insights into tumor development.