JBrowse: A Next-Generation Genome Browser

JBrowse is the next generation web-based genome browser from the GMOD project built from the ground up with JavaScript and HTML5.  Like its predecessor GBrowse, it is designed to be a highly customizable viewer for presenting and integrating genomic data dynamically at any level of detail from base pairs to chromosomes.  JBrowse offers advanced integration, fluid interactivity, and native support for very large datasets (such as deep-coverage resequencing alignments) that were once possible only for desktop-based genome viewers while at the same time enabling simple, reproducible deployments and seamless data interchange made possible by the cloud.  For large installations with thousands of available data tracks, JBrowse incorporates a track selector with faceted browsing, so that previously rich-but-overwhelming lists of tracks (e.g. spanning many experimental protocols, computational analyses, cell lines, and collaborative groups) become searchable in real time.  In the talk we will demonstrate JBrowse's capabilities in more detail and outline future development plans.  JBrowse is open source, free for academic and commercial use, and enterprise support is available.