Official Twitter account of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV)

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IGV Team retweeted
We now have an IGV tutorial on sandbox.bio! Learn to visualize genomics data and distinguish real variants from artifacts: ➡️ sandbox.bio/tutorials?id=igv…
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IGV Team retweeted
28 Mar 2023
pytor update !! thanks to @igvteam, both igv.js and igv-webapp now support pytor files, making it easier to visualize your data. Check out igv.org/app to try it out using a pytor file. See: github.com/igvteam/igv.js/wi… #igv #pytor #cnvpytor #cnv
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26 Jan 2023
IGV 2.16.0 is released with options to color bases from @PacBio alignments by SMRT kinetic values. Thanks to Chris Saunders @ctsa11 for the PR. Details here github.com/igvteam/igv/wiki/…
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11 Aug 2022
IGV 2.14.0 is released with a new coloring mode for 5-Methylcytosine modifications. See github.com/igvteam/igv/wiki/…
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3 Aug 2022
igv-reports (pypi.org/project/igv-reports…) now supports multi-locus views for structural variants. Example report here: igv.org/igv-reports/examples…. Thanks to @devangvang for this PR.
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7 Apr 2022
IGV desktop and igv-webapp have been updated with the #T2T CHM13 v2.0 assembly. Thanks to Maximilian Haeussler and the track hub team(s) at UCSC. tinyurl.com/y9rbppkp

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12 Apr 2022
Updated IGV url tinyurl.com/ycyfty8c

12 Apr 2022
igv-notebook for Colab and Jupyter is now in pypi, "pip install igv-notebook". Example notebook colab.research.google.com/dr…
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16 Feb 2022
IGV Desktop can now interact with an app wrapping the JBrowse Circular View component to explore long range interactions. See github.com/igvteam/igv/wiki/… for details.
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IGV Team retweeted
Excited to announce 42basepairs.com, an app to explore your genomics cloud data! Hook up existing S3 buckets, inspect data without downloading it, and collaborate in real-time with multiplayer IGV 🧬 ⛅ Check out the trailer: youtu.be/JaNzjaKJSJk

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5 Jan 2022
Attention: If you are running an older version of IGV, versions from 2.4 to 2.11.8 were shipped with log4j2, which is subject to the "Log4shell" vulnerability. We recommend you update IGV to the latest version, 2.11.9, which does not use log4j. tinyurl.com/3ydf33j8

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19 Jul 2021
igv.js and igv-web (igv.org/app) now support viewing alignments (BAM) and variants (VCF) from htsget servers.

9 May 2020
igv.js: an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) disq.us/t/3ogatrc

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27 Apr 2020
Do you use IGV? Do you develop with igv.js? Help our proposal for renewed funding by telling us how IGV has benefited your work and why the IGV resource should be sustained. Email igv-los@broadinstitute.org or DM @igvteam by May 18, 2020 #bioinformatics #genomics #ngsdata
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16 Jan 2020
IGV 2.8 released. Many new features and improvements. See the release notes at software.broadinstitute.org/…. #genomics #NGS #bioinformatics

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25 Oct 2019
IGV 2.7 released with new support for viewing data in Amazon S3 storage using native AWS authorization and authentication (thanks to @braincode and colleagues at @UMCCR for the contribution). Plus other features and fixes. See release notes at software.broadinstitute.org/… #genomics

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3 Oct 2019
Use igv.js to embed IGV? New igv.js 2.3.0 has a major performance optimization for large BAM files. Thanks to Adam Kewley @peta_gene for the suggestion! Install from GitHub github.com/igvteam/igv.js/re… or npm npmjs.com/package/igv. IGV-Web was also updated - igv.org/app
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See our new IGV-Web app at igv.org/app

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