igv.js: an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

Bioinformatics. 2023 Jan 1;39(1):btac830. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btac830.

Abstract

Summary: igv.js is an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). It can be easily dropped into any web page with a single line of code and has no external dependencies. The viewer runs completely in the web browser, with no backend server and no data pre-processing required.

Availability and implementation: The igv.js JavaScript component can be installed from NPM at https://www.npmjs.com/package/igv. The source code is available at https://github.com/igvteam/igv.js under the MIT open-source license. IGV-Web, the end-user application built around igv.js, is available at https://igv.org/app. The source code is available at https://github.com/igvteam/igv-webapp under the MIT open-source license.

Supplementary information: Supplementary information is available at Bioinformatics online.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Genomics*
  • Software*
  • Web Browser