JBrowse 2 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

JBrowse 2 is an open source genome browser from the Generic Model Organism Database project. It renders reference sequences, gene and feature annotation, read alignments, variants, quantitative signal and whole genome synteny, streaming directly out of the standard indexed bioinformatics containers: BAM, CRAM, VCF, bigWig and tabix indexed GFF3 and BED. Rendering happens in the visitor's own browser, so the server's job is to publish the data correctly and answer HTTP range requests, which is exactly what a genome browser needs and what a naive file host gets wrong.

It suits genomics and bioinformatics teams, core facilities, plant and animal breeding programmes, clinical research groups and teaching labs that want a self hosted browser for their own reference genomes, annotation and sequencing results, under their own control and inside their own network.

Common uses

• Publish your reference genomes and annotation for a research group
• Review read alignments and variant calls without downloading them
• Teach genome structure with a browser your lab fully controls

See it running

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