News/JBrowse paper
A paper on the
JBrowse genome browser is in
this month’s issue of
Genome Research. If you haven’t looked at
JBrowse before, it feels both very familiar
and radically different at the same time.
JBrowse is a Web 2.0 genome browser that features:
- Client side rendering, and very fast rendering at that.
- As a consequence it has very low server disk space, server CPU,
security and network bandwidth requirements.
- An interface that is entirely AJAX
based. Everything is done with AJAX.
- GFF3,
Chado and/or
Wiggle track compatibility
- JSON based configuration files (very
similar to GBrowse config files in their content)
- Easy embedding in other web applications (an example of embedding a
genome browser in a wiki is provided)
JBrowse features smooth panning, zooming, navigation, and track
selection and sets a new standard for the genome browser interface.
Dave Clements
GMOD Help Desk
Posted to the GMOD News on 2009/09/01
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