Easy way to create gene plot in gviz?

Question

I would like to create a simple plot of a given human gene containing the main features, e.g. exons, introns, ORFs, transcripts etc. I understand that gviz is a popular choice for this kind of thing, but most tutorials are massive overkill for what I want to do (I don't need fancy features such as importing BAM files and plotting coverage).

I was wondering whether someone can point me towards some sample code for creating a basic gene plot. It probably would be good to start by creating a dataframe containing all the features of my gene - is there a handy package that can do that?

Answer 1

If Python is an option, you could check BioPython and GenomDiagram. This should get the job done.

Answer 2

I assume you are trying to make something like a "gene arrow map" and [gggenes][1] can help you (with some little tweaks) in case you are familiar with ggplot2.