pileup.js: a JavaScript library for interactive and in-browser visualization of genomic data

Dan Vanderkam; B Arman Aksoy; Isaac Hodes; Jaclyn Perrone; Jeff Hammerbacher

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btw167

pileup.js: a JavaScript library for interactive and in-browser visualization of genomic data

Bioinformatics. 2016 Aug 1;32(15):2378-9. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw167. Epub 2016 Mar 29.

Authors

Dan Vanderkam¹, B Arman Aksoy¹, Isaac Hodes¹, Jaclyn Perrone¹, Jeff Hammerbacher¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 1 Gustave L. Levy Pl, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Abstract

P: ileup.js is a new browser-based genome viewer. It is designed to facilitate the investigation of evidence for genomic variants within larger web applications. It takes advantage of recent developments in the JavaScript ecosystem to provide a modular, reliable and easily embedded library.

Availability and implementation: The code and documentation for pileup.js is publicly available at https://github.com/hammerlab/pileup.js under the Apache 2.0 license.

Contact: correspondence@hammerlab.org.

MeSH terms

Computer Graphics*
Genome
Genomics*
Internet
Programming Languages
Software*