IGV(1)

✨ IGV(1) β€” User Commands ✨

okay bestie, this is the manual page for igv πŸ’– (yes that's the section User Commands, we're in the big leagues now). buckle up, it's giving iconic genomics tool energy πŸ§¬πŸ‘‘


🌸 NAME 🌸

igv β€” Integrative Genomics Viewer πŸ¦‹

like. the Integrative Genomics Viewer. that's her name. that's the whole vibe.


πŸ’… SYNOPSIS πŸ’…

igv

or, if you're feeling spicy and want to do it the long way:

java -jar /usr/share/java/igv.jar

both of these do the thing. pick your fighter. no cap 🫢


✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. the Integrative Genomics Viewer (everyone calls her IGV, we're on a nickname basis) is a high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated datasets. she's fast, she's pretty, she handles a LOT. main character energy fr fr πŸ‘‘

she supports a wide variety of data types, including:

  • sequence alignments 🧬
  • microarrays
  • genomic annotations πŸ“

literally the whole squad of data types. she's not picky, she's versatile. πŸ’–

and listen β€” if you use IGV, you gotta cite it. it's the rules, it's the law, it's basic manners:

http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv

put some respect on her name when you reference her. periodt. πŸ’…


😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? something being a lil cursed? tell the girlies directly:

igv-help@broadinstitute.org

they wanna know. don't suffer in silence bestie πŸ™ˆ


Copyright 2011 The Broad Institute, Inc. and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(that's the official lore. iconic institutions, honestly. πŸŽ€)


🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go click it. it's right there. iykyk. ✨


ok that's the whole page, you're basically an IGV expert now πŸ’€ go visualize something huge and slay

and for the record β€” this was IGV 2.0, dated July 2011, filed under section IGV(1). vintage but she still eats. πŸ“πŸ’œ

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from