Summary

igv.js is an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). It can be easily dropped into any web page with a single line of code and has no external dependencies. The viewer runs completely in the web browser, with no backend server and no data pre-processing required.

Availability and implementation

The igv.js JavaScript component can be installed from NPM at https://www.npmjs.com/package/igv. The source code is available at https://github.com/igvteam/igv.js under the MIT open-source license. IGV-Web, the end-user application built around igv.js, is available at https://igv.org/app. The source code is available at https://github.com/igvteam/igv-webapp under the MIT open-source license.

Supplementary information

Supplementary information is available at Bioinformatics online.

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