LinearAlignmentsDisplay
Auto-generated config schema for the current JBrowse release — see the config guide for concepts. Provided by the alignments plugin. View source.
Example usage
Minimal BAM track — no display override needed for defaults. See the alignments track guide for all adapter and display options:
{
type: 'AlignmentsTrack',
trackId: 'ngs_reads',
name: 'NGS reads',
assemblyNames: ['hg38'],
adapter: { type: 'BamAdapter', uri: 'https://example.com/sample.bam' },
}CRAM colored by CpG methylation (modBAM MM/ML tags). The displayDefaults
object shorthand applies settings without spelling out the display type or
displayId — equivalent to displays: [{ type: 'LinearAlignmentsDisplay', displayId: '...', color: ... }]. See
configuring displays:
{
type: 'AlignmentsTrack',
trackId: 'methylation',
name: 'Methylation',
assemblyNames: ['hg38'],
adapter: { type: 'CramAdapter', uri: 'https://example.com/sample.cram' },
displayDefaults: {
baseColor: { field: 'modifications' },
modifications: { fillUnmarked: true },
},
}Long reads — taller track, soft-clipping shown, split/chimeric reads connected by arcs:
{
type: 'AlignmentsTrack',
trackId: 'long_reads',
name: 'Long reads',
assemblyNames: ['hg38'],
adapter: { type: 'BamAdapter', uri: 'https://example.com/longreads.bam' },
displayDefaults: {
height: 400,
showSoftClipping: true,
linkedReads: 'normal',
readConnections: 'arc',
},
}See the Config slots section below for all available configuration fields.
Related links
- Adapter: BamAdapter
- Adapter: CramAdapter
- Adapter: HtsgetBamAdapter
- Adapter: SamAdapter
- Extended by: LGVSyntenyDisplay
- State model: runtime API
- Base config: BaseLinearDisplay
- Config guide: Alignments track
- User guide: Alignments track
- Guide: Custom track and display types
- Guide: Display settings
- Guide: Methylation (bisulfite)
- Guide: Tracks
Config slots
These slots go on a display entry: "displays": [{ "type": "LinearAlignmentsDisplay", ... }], or in the track's displayDefaults when this is its default display. Slot types (fileLocation, frozen, ...) are explained in the config slot types reference. Slots a base configuration contributes are listed here too, so this table is the whole surface.
| Slot | Description |
|---|---|
featureHeightnumber = 7 | Height of each feature (read) in pixels. Defaults to 7 |
readConnectionsLineWidthnumber = 1 | Line width for read-connection arcs/lines in pixels |
showSashimiLabelsboolean = false | Draw the supporting-read count on each sashimi arc |
hideNonCanonicalJunctionsboolean = false | Hide sashimi arcs whose splice-site motif is none of GT-AG, GC-AG or AT-AC. Read off the reference under each junction, so it needs a sequence adapter; a junction whose motif could not be read stays |
maxHeightnumber = 6000 | Maximum pixel height of the pileup layout; reads beyond this are not stacked (coverage still reflects true depth) advanced |
heightnumber = 250 | Starting height in pixels for the coverage band and pileup together; heightMode decides what a pileup deeper than this does |
| color AlignmentsColor | The read fill: "steelblue" paints every read, { field: "strand" } a read dimension's own vocabulary and { field: "tags.HP" } a SAM tag. |
| baseColor AlignmentsBaseColor | The per-base layer drawn over the reads, whatever fills them: { field: "modifications" }, "bisulfite", "baseQuality" or "base". |
modificationsfrozen = {} | What the modifications and bisulfite colour fields draw: threshold (percent, default 10), twoColor, fillUnmarked, cytosineContext and shownModifications; see the ModificationColorBy type.advanced |
filterByfrozen = defaultFilterFlags | Every read filter, in one object: the flag masks, a read name, tag filters, and the four read categories. default filter flags is exclude 1540 read unmapped (0x4) read fails platform/vendor quality checks (0x200) read is PCR or optical duplicate (0x400) A read category takes "only" or "exclude", and is absent when it isn't filtering — { "properPairs": "exclude", "split": "only" } for the split reads of discordant pairs. spliced, properPairs, singletons and split; see the FilterBy type.advanced |
| facet Facet | In-track stacked grouping, one labelled section per value: a read dimension (strand, firstOfPairStrand, pairOrientation, splitRead, mapq, mateAssembly), a tag (tags.HP), or any other field. { field: "tags.HP", domain: ["2", "1"] } stacks the listed values first. |
collapseGroupRowsboolean = false | Only consulted while facet is in effect. Collapsing trades the per-group stack for one lane per group, with overlap depth carried by the tint shading instead of by row count — the compact reading for a track with many groups (an all-vs-all synteny track's mate genomes). A group expanded from its label chip opts back out and draws a true stack. |
| scales ValueScale | The coverage band's value scale — the one thing on this display drawn against an axis, the pileup having no value and the arcs their own arcBandYScale. symlogConstant starts at 1 rather than the wiggle family's 0, which makes symlog exactly log(depth+1): the knee sits at one read, the smallest depth there is. domainQuantile stays at 1, the deepest base in view; the Coverage axis panel's Clip extreme outliers writes 0.99, which stops the axis at twice the 99th percentile of the covered bins' peaks, and misses a collapsed-repeat pile-up once it covers more than 1% of the view. |
mismatchAlphaboolean = false | Fade mismatch bases by their per-base Phred quality. Defaults to off |
showLowFreqMismatchesboolean = false | Draw sub-pixel mismatches, insertions and clip bars in the pileup at full opacity instead of fading the ones below the depth-dependent frequency threshold. Read through the filterMismatchesByFrequency getter, which is this in the polarity the renderers and hit-test take. Does not affect the coverage band (see runCoveragePipeline)advanced |
showLegendboolean = false | Show the color-scheme legend overlay. Defaults to off |
sortedBymaybeFrozen | Sort reads at a genomic position, e.g. by base, strand, or a tag (unset = unsorted) advanced |
layoutOrderstringEnum (position, length, spliced) = 'position' | The row order where no sortedBy sort applies. length puts the widest features in the lowest rows, so large alignments cluster at the top rather than interleaving with small ones (LGVSyntenyDisplay's default); spliced does the same for reads whose CIGAR carries a skip, for RNA-seq. |
showOutlinemaybeFrozen | null = auto: outline is drawn only in chain/linked-read modes. Set true/false to force it on or off regardless of mode. advanced |
linkedReadsstringEnum (off, normal) = 'off' | View as pairs / link supplementary alignments: put a read, its mate and its split segments on one row |
showBezierConnectionsboolean = false | Draw paired-read connection curves over the pileup |
showCoverageboolean = true | Draw the coverage histogram band |
showPileupboolean = true | Draw the stacked-read pileup band |
coverageHeightnumber = 45 | Height of the coverage band in pixels |
coverageSnpMinFrequencynumber = 0 | Hide a coverage-band allele segment whose share of that position's depth is below this fraction, so the band stops painting a sliver for every sequencing error at high depth. 0 (the default) colors every mismatch. Distinct from showLowFreqMismatches, which turns OFF the pileup's fade of sub-pixel marks against a depth-dependent threshold; this is a flat allele-fraction floor on the band, and the grey depth bar still shows through where a segment is hiddenadvanced |
showMismatchesboolean = true | Draw how reads differ from the reference: per-base mismatches, insertion markers and deletion bars. Not the intron centerlines — a spliced read is drawn as separate exon blocks, so the line joining them says they are one read rather than several, and it draws either way (PILEUP_MARKS) |
showInterbaseIndicatorsboolean = true | Draw interbase insertion/clip count bars and indicator triangles |
flipStrandLongReadChainsboolean = true | Color split segments relative to the predominant orientation of the reads on screen, rather than by their own mapping strand |
colorSupplementaryChainsboolean = false | Paint every chain carrying a supplementary segment a flat supplementary color, paired or not |
drawInterboolean = true | Draw inter-chromosomal read-connection arcs |
drawProperPairArcsboolean = true | Draw arcs for ordinary concordant pairs. Uncheck to leave only the arcs that carry a category (abnormal insert size or orientation, split junctions), which on deep coverage is the difference between a readable band and a solid mass |
minInterchromSupportnumber = 2 | Hide inter-chromosomal connections supported by fewer than this many reads clustered at the same breakpoint |
drawLongRangeboolean = true | Draw long-range read-connection arcs |
| arcColor AlignmentsArcColor | What colours the read-connection arcs and the read cloud: "pairOrientation" paints them by pair orientation whatever the reads show, and "" takes the reads' color field where an arc paints it. |
readConnectionsstringEnum (off, arc, cloud) = 'off' | Read-connection rendering mode (mate pairs + split reads) |
readConnectionsDownboolean = true | Draw read connections below the coverage band. Defaults to on |
showSashimiArcsboolean = true | Draw sashimi (splice-junction) arcs |
sashimiArcsModestringEnum (up, down, auto) = 'up' | Sashimi junction-arc placement |
minSashimiScorenumber = 2 | Hide sashimi arcs with fewer than this many supporting reads |
sashimiArcsHeightnumber = 40 | Height of the sashimi-arc band in pixels |
readConnectionsHeightnumber = 35 | Height of the read-connection band in pixels |
showSoftClippingboolean = false | Draw soft-clipped read portions. Defaults to off |
heightModestringEnum (fixed, grow, fit) = 'fixed' | Track-sizing strategy — how the track responds when there are more reads than fit (shared vocabulary with the canvas feature display, exposed in the "Track sizing" menu). fixed (the default) keeps featureHeight and scrolls; grow expands the track to show every read at the configured height; fit squeezes reads so every uncollapsed group fills the display without scrolling. Orthogonal to the per-read size set by featureHeight |
growMaxHeightnumber = 800 | Ceiling in pixels for the "autogrow track height" sizing mode; a pileup deeper than this grows to the ceiling and scrolls the rest. Does not apply to the fixed or fit modes, and does not limit how much is laid out (see maxHeight) advanced |
densityTierstringEnum (auto, features, density) = 'auto' | when to draw the features-per-bin density band in place of features: "auto" swaps to it where the region is too large to fetch, "features" never does and keeps the banner, "density" always does. Needs a density source on the adapter (its densityAdapter slot) advanced |
densityTierBpPerPxnumber = 0 | in "auto" mode, also draw the density band from this many bp per pixel outward, before the region is too large to fetch; 0 leaves the swap to the fetch-size gate alone advanced |
| Inherited from BaseLinearDisplay | 3 slots |
mouseoverstring = | text to display when the cursor hovers over a feature callback args: feature |
fetchSizeLimitnumber = 1_000_000 | maximum data to attempt to download for a given track, used if adapter doesn't specify one advanced |
forceLoadboolean = false | Declarative equivalent of the "Force load" button on the "too much data" banner: when true the display always renders, however large the region or dense the features. Off by default (the gate guards against huge downloads). Set it on a view no one can interact with — an embedded / notebook view, or a screenshot — where the region is known and you want it drawn without a click. advanced |