diff --git a/scripts/functions/combining_dfs_plotting.R b/scripts/functions/combining_dfs_plotting.R
index 107c114..60731ad 100644
--- a/scripts/functions/combining_dfs_plotting.R
+++ b/scripts/functions/combining_dfs_plotting.R
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 # 1) large combined df including NAs for AF, OR,etc
 # 		Dim: same no. of rows as gene associated meta_data_with_AFandOR
 # 2) small combined df including NAs for AF, OR, etc.
-# 		Dim: same as mcsm data
+# 		Dim: same as mcsm data or foldX
 # 3) large combined df excluding NAs 
 # 		Dim: dim(#1) - na_count_df2
 # 4) small combined df excluding NAs
@@ -31,10 +31,13 @@
 # 6) LIGAND small combined df excluding NAs
 # 		Dim: dim()
 #==========================================================
+#lig_dist_colname = 'ligand_distance' or global var LigDist_colname
+#lig_dist_cutoff  =  10 or global var LigDist_cutoff
+
 combining_dfs_plotting <- function(  my_df_u
                                    , gene_metadata
-                                   , lig_dist_colname = 'ligand_distance'
-                                   , lig_dist_cutoff = 10){
+                                   , lig_dist_colname = ''
+                                   , lig_dist_cutoff = ''){
 
   # counting NAs in AF, OR cols
   # or_mychisq
diff --git a/scripts/functions/plotting_data.R b/scripts/functions/plotting_data.R
index faaebca..e32813b 100755
--- a/scripts/functions/plotting_data.R
+++ b/scripts/functions/plotting_data.R
@@ -16,9 +16,12 @@ library(dplyr)
   ## my_df_u_lig
   ## dup_muts
 #========================================================
+#lig_dist_colname = 'ligand_distance' or global var LigDist_colname
+#lig_dist_cutoff  =  10 or global var LigDist_cutoff
+
 plotting_data <- function(df
-                          , lig_dist_colname = 'ligand_distance'
-                          , lig_dist_cutoff = 10) {
+                          , lig_dist_colname = '' 
+                          , lig_dist_cutoff = '') {
 my_df       = data.frame()
 my_df_u     = data.frame()
 my_df_u_lig = data.frame()
diff --git a/scripts/functions/plotting_globals.R b/scripts/functions/plotting_globals.R
index c28047e..b2a29b9 100644
--- a/scripts/functions/plotting_globals.R
+++ b/scripts/functions/plotting_globals.R
@@ -23,12 +23,16 @@ import_dirs <- function(drug_name, gene_name) {
   
   dr_muts_col    <<- paste0('dr_mutations_', drug_name)
   other_muts_col <<- paste0('other_mutations_', drug_name)
-  resistance_col <<- "drtype"
   gene_match     <<- paste0(gene_name,"_p.")
   
 }
 
-# other globals
+# Other globals
+#=====================
+# Resistance colname
+#=====================
+resistance_col <<- "drtype"
+
 #===============================
 # mcsm ligand distance cut off
 #===============================
@@ -39,7 +43,6 @@ LigDist_cutoff <<- 10
 # Angstroms symbol
 #==================
 angstroms_symbol <<- "\u212b"
-#cat(paste0("There are ", nrow(my_df_u_lig), " sites lying within 10", angstroms_symbol, " of the ligand\n"))
 
 #===============
 # Delta symbol
diff --git a/scripts/plotting/Header_TT.R b/scripts/plotting/Header_TT.R
index 2fa892c..0b78307 100755
--- a/scripts/plotting/Header_TT.R
+++ b/scripts/plotting/Header_TT.R
@@ -186,3 +186,7 @@ func_path = "~/git/LSHTM_analysis/scripts/functions/"
 source_files <- list.files(func_path, "\\.R$")  # locate all .R files
 map(paste0(func_path, source_files), source)  # source all your R scripts!
 
+# set plot script dir
+plot_script_path = "~/git/LSHTM_analysis/scripts/plotting/"
+
+
diff --git a/scripts/plotting/get_plotting_dfs.R b/scripts/plotting/get_plotting_dfs.R
index 23a99c7..56e8a67 100644
--- a/scripts/plotting/get_plotting_dfs.R
+++ b/scripts/plotting/get_plotting_dfs.R
@@ -12,20 +12,24 @@ source("/home/tanu/git/LSHTM_analysis/scripts/plotting/Header_TT.R")
 # in from other scripts
 # to call this
 #********************
+# set drug and gene name
 
-#====================
-# variables for lig
-#====================
+#==========================================
+# variables for lig:
+# comes from functions/plotting_globals.R
+#==========================================
 
-#LigDist_colname = "ligand_distance"
-#LigDist_cutoff = 10
+cat("\nGlobal variables for Ligand:"
+    , "\nligand distance colname:", LigDist_colname
+    , "\nligand distance cut off:", LigDist_cutoff)
 
 #===========
 # input
 #===========
-#---------------------
+#--------------------------------------------
 # call: import_dirs()
-#---------------------
+# comes from functions/plotting_globals.R
+#--------------------------------------------
 import_dirs(drug, gene)
 
 #---------------------------
@@ -72,6 +76,8 @@ gene_metadata <- read.csv(infile_metadata
                           , stringsAsFactors = F
                           , header = T)
 
+cat("\nDim of meta data file: ", dim(gene_metadata))
+
 all_plot_dfs = combining_dfs_plotting(my_df_u
                                       , gene_metadata
                                       , lig_dist_colname = LigDist_colname
@@ -82,34 +88,6 @@ merged_df3      = all_plot_dfs[[2]]
 merged_df2_comp = all_plot_dfs[[3]]
 merged_df3_comp = all_plot_dfs[[4]]
 #======================================================================
-#TODO: Think! MOVE TO COMBINE or singular file for deepddg
-
-#============================
-# adding deepddg scaled values
-# scale data b/w -1 and 1
-#============================
-# n = which(colnames(merged_df3) == "deepddg"); n 
-# 
-# my_min = min(merged_df3[,n]); my_min 
-# my_max = max(merged_df3[,n]); my_max 
-# 
-# merged_df3$deepddg_scaled = ifelse(merged_df3[,n] < 0
-#                                    , merged_df3[,n]/abs(my_min)
-#                                    , merged_df3[,n]/my_max) 
-# # sanity check
-# my_min = min(merged_df3$deepddg_scaled); my_min 
-# my_max = max(merged_df3$deepddg_scaled); my_max
-# 
-# if (my_min == -1 && my_max == 1){
-#    cat("\nPASS: DeepDDG successfully scaled b/w -1 and 1"
-#        #, "\nProceeding with assigning deep outcome category")
-#        , "\n")
-# }else{
-#    cat("\nFAIL: could not scale DeepDDG ddg values"
-#        , "Aborting!")
-# }
-# 
-
 ####################################################################
 #                        Data for combining other dfs
 ####################################################################
@@ -131,7 +109,7 @@ merged_df3_comp = all_plot_dfs[[4]]
 #                        Data for logoplots
 ####################################################################
 
-source("logo_data.R")
+source(paste0(plot_script_path, "logo_data.R"))
 
 s1 = c("\nSuccessfully sourced logo_data.R")
 cat(s1)
@@ -142,7 +120,7 @@ cat(s1)
 
 #source("other_plots_data.R")
 
-source("dm_om_data.R")
+source(paste0(plot_script_path, "dm_om_data.R"))
 
 s2 = c("\nSuccessfully sourced other_plots_data.R")
 cat(s2)
@@ -151,7 +129,7 @@ cat(s2)
 #                  Data for Lineage barplots: WF and LF dfs
 ####################################################################
 
-source("lineage_data.R")
+source(paste0(plot_script_path, "lineage_data.R"))
 
 s3 = c("\nSuccessfully sourced lineage_data.R")
 cat(s3)
@@ -160,7 +138,7 @@ cat(s3)
 #                  Data for corr plots:
 ####################################################################
 # make sure the above script works because merged_df2_combined is needed
-source("corr_data.R")
+source(paste0(plot_script_path, "corr_data.R"))
 
 s4 = c("\nSuccessfully sourced corr_data.R")
 cat(s4)
@@ -168,7 +146,7 @@ cat(s4)
 ########################################################################
 #                           End of script
 ########################################################################
-if (  all( length(s1), length(s2), length(s3), length(s4) ) >0 ){
+if (  all( length(s1), length(s2), length(s3), length(s4) ) > 0 ){
  cat(
   "\n##################################################"
  , "\nSuccessful: get_plotting_dfs.R worked!"
@@ -181,45 +159,18 @@ if (  all( length(s1), length(s2), length(s3), length(s4) ) >0 ){
  }   
  
 ########################################################################
-# clear excess variables
-rm(c1, c2, c3, c4, check1
-   , curr_count, curr_total
-   , cols_check
-   , cols_to_select
-   , cols_to_select_deepddg
-   , cols_to_select_duet
-   , cols_to_select_dynamut
-   , cols_to_select_dynamut2
-   , cols_to_select_encomddg
-   , cols_to_select_encomdds
-   , cols_to_select_mcsm
-   , cols_to_select_mcsm_na
-   , cols_to_select_sdm
+# clear excess variables: from the global enviornment
+
+vars0 = ls(envir = .GlobalEnv)[grepl("curr_*", ls(envir = .GlobalEnv))] 
+vars1 = ls(envir = .GlobalEnv)[grepl("^cols_to*", ls(envir = .GlobalEnv))] 
+vars2 = ls(envir = .GlobalEnv)[grepl("pivot_cols_*", ls(envir = .GlobalEnv))]
+vars3 = ls(envir = .GlobalEnv)[grepl("expected_*", ls(envir = .GlobalEnv))]
+
+rm(c1
+   , fact_cols
    , infile_metadata
    , infile_params
-   #, infilename_dynamut
-   #, infilename_dynamut2
-   #, infilename_mcsm_f_snps
-   #, infilename_mcsm_na
-   )
-
-rm(pivot_cols
-, pivot_cols_deepddg
-, pivot_cols_duet
-, pivot_cols_dynamut
-, pivot_cols_dynamut2
-, pivot_cols_encomddg
-, pivot_cols_encomdds
-, pivot_cols_foldx
-, pivot_cols_mcsm
-, pivot_cols_mcsm_na
-, pivot_cols_n
-, pivot_cols_sdm)
-
-rm(expected_cols
-, expected_ncols
-, expected_rows
-, expected_rows_lf
-, fact_cols)
-
-   
+   , vars0
+   , vars1
+   , vars2
+   , vars3)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/scripts/plotting/logo_data.R b/scripts/plotting/logo_data.R
index 7eaf1b6..87d503b 100644
--- a/scripts/plotting/logo_data.R
+++ b/scripts/plotting/logo_data.R
@@ -140,3 +140,4 @@ wide_df_or_mult = wide_df_or_mult[,-1]
 str(wide_df_or_mult)
 
 position_or_mult = as.numeric(colnames(wide_df_or_mult))
+
diff --git a/scripts/plotting/logo_plots.R b/scripts/plotting/logo_plots.R
index 8b2e856..95ccfa4 100755
--- a/scripts/plotting/logo_plots.R
+++ b/scripts/plotting/logo_plots.R
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ logo_combined_labelled = "logo_combined_labelled.svg"
 plot_logo_combined_labelled  = paste0(plotdir,"/", logo_combined_labelled)
 
 #########################################################
+#logo_or_mult_p + theme_dark()
+#logo_or_mult_p + theme(plot.background = element_rect(fill = "black"))
 
 #==================================
 # Output
@@ -124,8 +126,24 @@ print(logo_logOR)
 #*****************************
 # Mutant logo plot: >1 nsSNP
 #******************************
+aa_col_choices = c('chemistry', 'hydrophobicity', 'clustalx', 'taylor')
+my_logo_col = aa_col_choices[[1]]
+
+if (my_logo_col == 'clustalx || taylor'){
+  cat("\nSelected colour scheme:", my_logo_col
+      , "\nUsing black theme\n")
+  theme_bgc = "black"
+  font_bgc  = "white"
+} if (my_logo_col == 'chemistry || hydrophobicity') {
+  cat('\nSelected colour scheme:', my_logo_col
+      , "\nUsing grey theme")
+  theme_bgc = "grey"
+  font_bgc  = "black"
+}
+
 p0 = ggseqlogo(tab_mt
                , method = 'custom'
+               , col_scheme = my_logo_col
                , seq_type = 'aa') + 
   #ylab('my custom height') +
   theme(axis.text.x = element_blank()) +
@@ -143,9 +161,12 @@ cat('\nDone: p0')
 mut_logo_p = p0 + theme(legend.position = "none"
                 , legend.title = element_blank()
                 , legend.text = element_text(size = 20)
-                , axis.text.x = element_text(size = 14, angle = 90)
-                , axis.text.y = element_blank())
-#mut_logo_p
+                , axis.text.x = element_text(size = 14
+                                             , angle = 90
+                                             , colour = font_bgc)
+                , axis.text.y = element_blank()
+                , plot.background = element_rect(fill = theme_bgc))
+mut_logo_p
 cat('\nDone: p0+mut_logo_p')
 
 #*************************
@@ -154,9 +175,7 @@ cat('\nDone: p0+mut_logo_p')
 p2 = ggseqlogo(tab_wt
                , method = 'custom'
                , seq_type = 'aa'
-               #, col_scheme = "taylor"
-               #, col_scheme = chemistry2
-) + 
+               , col_scheme = my_logo_col) + 
   #ylab('my custom height') +
   theme(text=element_text(family="FreeSans"))+
   theme(axis.text.x = element_blank()
@@ -185,7 +204,11 @@ cat('\nDone: wt_logo_p')
 #***********************
 # Logo OR >1 nsSNP
 #***********************
-logo_or_mult_p = ggseqlogo(wide_df_or_mult, method="custom", seq_type="aa") + ylab("my custom height") +
+logo_or_mult_p = ggseqlogo(wide_df_or_mult
+                           , method = "custom"
+                           , col_scheme = my_logo_col
+                           , seq_type="aa") + 
+  ylab("my custom height") +
   theme(axis.text.x = element_text(size = 14
                                    , angle = 90
                                    , hjust = 1