JBrowse is a fast, embeddable genome browser built completely with JavaScript and HTML5, with optional run-once data formatting tools written in Perl.
Headline Features:
Fast, smooth scrolling and zooming. Explore your genome with unparalleled speed.
Scales easily to multi-gigabase genomes and deep-coverage sequencing.
Quickly open and view data files on your computer without uploading them to any server.
Supports GFF3, BED, FASTA, Wiggle, BigWig, BAM, VCF (with either .tbi or .idx index), REST, and more. BAM, BigBed, BigWig, and VCF data are displayed directly from chunks of the compressed binary files, no conversion needed.
Includes an optional “faceted” track selector (see demo) suitable for large installations with thousands of tracks.
Very light server resource requirements. In fact, JBrowse has no back-end server code, just tools for formatting data files to be read directly over HTTP. Serve huge datasets from a single low-cost cloud instance.
Can run as a stand-alone app on OSX and Windows using the Electron platform
Highly extensible plugin architecture, with a large plugin registry of existing examples here https://gmod.github.io/jbrowse-registry
