JBrowse: A next-generation genome browser
University of California, Berkeley · Ontario Institute for Cancer Research · +1 more institution
Abstract
We describe an open source, portable, JavaScript-based genome browser, JBrowse, that can be used to navigate genome annotations over the web. JBrowse helps preserve the user's sense of location by avoiding discontinuous transitions, instead offering smoothly animated panning, zooming, navigation, and track selection. Unlike most existing genome browsers, where the genome is rendered into images on the webserver and the role of the client is restricted to displaying those images, JBrowse distributes work between the server and client and therefore uses significantly less server overhead than previous genome browsers. We report benchmark results empirically comparing server- and client-side rendering strategies,…
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Authors
5- MEMitchell E. SkinnerCorresponding
University of California, Berkeley
- AUAndrew Uzilov
University of California, Berkeley
- LSLincoln Stein
Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
- CMChris Mungall
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- IHIan Holmes
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Topics & keywords
- JavaScript
- Upload
- Computer science
- Web server
- Genome
- Genome browser
- Annotation
- Zoom