JBrowse

Status

• Mature release
• Active development
• Active support

Resources

• Home Page
• Quickstart
• Blog
• Configuration
• Demo
• Mailing Lists

JBrowse is a genome browser with an AJAX-based interface. JBrowse renders most tracks using client side JavaScript and JSON as its data transfer format. JBrowse is the official successor to GBrowse.

Demo

D. melanogaster

Requirements

• From CPAN:
  • BioPerl 1.6
  • JSON
  • JSON::XS (optional, for speed)
• libpng

Documentation

• JBrowse Home Page
• JBrowse Tutorial - Tutorial from 2009 GMOD Summer Schools
• JBrowse Quick Tutorial - JBrowse administration.

Presentations

• Talk at the April 21, 2010 UCSC genome browser group ("genecats") meeting.
• JBrowse: A next-generation genome browser - Presentation by Ian Holmes at the August 2009 GMOD Meeting. See the talk's summary for more.
• JBrowse - Presentation by Mitch Skinner at the January 2009 GMOD Meeting. See the talk's summary for more.
• Presentation by Ian Holmes at July 2008 GMOD Meeting. See the talk's summary for more.

Downloads

From GitHub.

Screenshots

Demo screenshot from 2009/03/24, showing region of Drosophila melanogaster 2R.

Mailing List

• gmod-ajax@lists.sourceforge.net: Discussion of development, installation problems, etc.
• Subscribe to gmod-ajax
• gmod-ajax archives

Contact

• Mitch Skinner