Features:
- 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 (see demo) 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 Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
- Highly extensible plugin architecture, with a large registry of plugins.
Browser Compatibility
The latest release of JBrowse is tested to work with the following web browsers:
- Mozilla Firefox (10 and later)
- Google Chrome (17 and later)
- Apple Safari (9 and later)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer (11 and later)
Server-side code, which is used only to pre-generate static data files (no CGI), requires only BioPerl and a few other CPAN modules. The result is a cross-platform AJAX genome browser that is easy to install, embed and customize.
JBrowse is a GMOD project.
Funding
JBrowse development is funded by the NHGRI.
Citing JBrowse
If you use JBrowse in a project that you publish, please cite the most recent JBrowse paper listed on the References page
License
JBrowse is released under the GNU LGPL or the Artistic License, see the JBrowse LICENSE file.