IGV

Integrative Genomics Viewer


IGV
IGV desktop application
IGV Web App
IGV in a web browser
Juicebox Web
Hi-C contact map viewer
For Developers
igv.js
Use igv.js to embed an interactive genome visualization component in your web app.
igv-notebook
A Python package that wraps igv.js for embedding in an IPython notebook. Supports both Jupyter and Google Colab.
igv-reports
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.
GitHub repos:   IGV Desktop  |  IGV Web App  |  igv.js  |  igv-notebook  |  igv-reports  |  Juicebox Web  |  juicebox.js

Citing IGV

To cite your use of IGV in your publication, please reference one or more of:

James T. Robinson, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, Wendy Winckler, Mitchell Guttman, Eric S. Lander, Gad Getz, Jill P. Mesirov. Integrative Genomics Viewer. Nature Biotechnology 29, 24–26 (2011). A public access version is also available: PMC3346182.

Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, James T. Robinson, Jill P. Mesirov. Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): high-performance genomics data visualization and exploration. Briefings in Bioinformatics 14, 178-192 (2013).

James T. Robinson, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, Aaron M. Wenger, Ahmet Zehir, Jill P. Mesirov. Variant Review with the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). Cancer Research 77(21) 31-34 (2017).

James T. Robinson, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, Douglass Turner, Jill P. Mesirov. igv.js: an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). Bioinformatics, 39(1) (2023), btac830.

Contact Us

The IGV Team is based at UC San Diego and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. The best way to reach us is by posting to the igv-help forum or by creating issues in our GitHub repositories. Note we have separate repositories for the IGV desktop application, the igv.js JavaScript component, the IGV-Web app, igv-notebook, and igv-reports.

Funding

IGV development has been supported by funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)  of the National Institutes of Health, the Informatics Technology for Cancer Reserarch (ITCR) of the NCI, and the Starr Cancer Consortium.