JBrowse is a fast, scalable genome browser built completely with JavaScript and HTML5. It can run on your desktop, or be embedded in your website.
Most established HTTP servers such as Apache or nginx work with JBrowse.
JBrowse also comes bundled with an express.js server that works for most purposes.
Features include:
- Fast, smooth scrolling and zooming. Explore your genome with unparalleled speed.
- Scales easily to multi-gigabase genomes and deep-coverage sequencing.
- Quickly open and view data files on your computer without uploading them to any server.
- Supports GFF3, BED, FASTA, Wiggle, BigWig, BAM, CRAM, VCF (with either .tbi or .idx index), REST, and more. BAM, BigBed, BigWig, and VCF data are displayed directly from chunks of the compressed binary files, no conversion needed.
- Includes an optional “faceted” track selector suitable for large installations with thousands of tracks.
- Very light server resource requirements. In fact, JBrowse has no back-end server code, it just reads chunks of files directly over HTTP using byte-range requests. You can serve huge datasets from a single low-cost cloud instance.
- JBrowse Desktop runs as a stand-alone app on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
- Highly extensible plugin architecture, with a large registry of plugins.
Website: jbrowse.org
Support: Documentation, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Evolutionary Software Foundation
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1
JBrowse is written in JavaScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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