Generate self-contained HTML reports that consist of a table of genomic sites and associated IGV views for each site. All IGV software is open source - MIT License.

The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a high-performance, easy-to-use, interactive tool for the visual exploration of genomic data. It supports flexible integration of all the common types of genomic data and metadata, investigator-generated or …

What's New: See the Release Notes for what's new in each IGV release. All platforms# IGV requires Java 21 or greater as of IGV 2.19.1. If you download one of the IGV versions that does not include Java, make sure you have Java 21 installed and in your path. Mac users: As of IGV 2.19.1, the IGV Mac apps require MacOS 11 (Big Sur) or greater.

IGV-Web is implemented using igv.js, our JavaScript component that allows developers to embed an IGV viewer into web pages and apps. The IGV team hosts an instance of IGV-Web at https://igv.org/app. To see how to install and configure your own instance of IGV-Web, see the section on Hosting IGV-Web. IGV website#

Note in the IGV window: there is no gene track, and no cytobandideogram in the genome ruler. IGV hosted genomes package everything together, but you loaded only the FASTA file with the sequence.

IGV-Web has a number of options for saving the state of your IGV session: you can save a file in IGV session format, bookmark the page in your browser, or create a web link URL that you can share with others.

IGV requires a reference genome. It serves as the "coordinate system" for displaying the tracks. When you first launch IGV, the human genome GRCh38/hg38 is loaded by default.

IGV 2.19.1 - December 2024# As of version 2.19.1, IGV requires Java 21 or greater . If you download one of the IGV versions that does not include Java, make sure you have Java 21 installed and in your path.

IGV is also available as a web application that runs in a web browser and requires no downloads. See https://igv.org/app . Select Documentation in the app's Help menu to see the documentation about using IGV-Web.

Introduction to the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) Hands-on exercise: Viewing variants (VCF file) 1. Load data Click File > Open Session Genotypes Then navigate to the downloaded IGV workshop folder/ Data / vcf and open vcf_session.xml 2. Observe the different data panels Variant sites Sample information