Sankey diagram is a variation of flow diagram, in which the width of the  connectors (links) is proportional to the quantity of flow between two connected items (nodes).

In Partek® Flow® Partek^® Flow^® Sankey plots are used to visualise visualize different classes of nucleotide variants (single nucleotide variants or SNVs, as well as indels) and filter variants based on those classes. Sankey plot is automatically created for each Annotated Variants data node and depicts the classification of variants for the selected sample (one at the time) with respect to the particular annotation model (Figure 1).

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