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Description
A genome browser that shows long reads and complex variants better
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Ribbon
Please cite our paper in Bioinformatics: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa680 (preprint available on bioRxiv).
Ribbon is an interactive web visualization tool for viewing genomic alignments of short/long reads or assembled contigs to any reference genome.
Ribbon is available online at genomeribbon.com and can even read large bam files straight from your computer without a local install.
Local deployment
If you need to deploy Ribbon locally, here are the steps:
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Clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/marianattestad/ribbon
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Open
index.html
in your browser
That is the entire installation process for Ribbon. Don't you love web applications?
Development
To develop new features in Ribbon:
Install npm if you don't already have it.
Clone this repository and build it:
git clone https://github.com/marianattestad/ribbon cd ribbon npm install npm run build