Fig. 1From: BREC: an R package/Shiny app for automatically identifying heterochromatin boundaries and estimating local recombination rates along chromosomesBREC workflow. This figure provides an overview of the tool design explaining how the different modules are linked together and how BREC functionalities are implemented. The top-to-bottom diagram starts with the required input data, how they are pre-processed (Step 0) and exploited (Main process: 6 major steps), then, what outputs are expected to be returned and in which format. A more detailed version is included in the Additional file 16, where a zoom-in on the main process is clarified for each of the six stepsBack to article page