alisaei/ribbon

A genome browser that shows long reads and complex variants better

Ribbon

Please cite our paper in Bioinformatics: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa680 (preprint available on bioRxiv).

Ribbon is an interactive web visualization tool for viewing genomic alignments of short/long reads or assembled contigs to any reference genome.

Ribbon is available online at genomeribbon.com and can even read large bam files straight from your computer without a local install.

Local deployment

If you need to deploy Ribbon locally, here are the steps:

1. Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/marianattestad/ribbon

2. Open index.html in your browser

That is the entire installation process for Ribbon. Don't you love web applications?

Development

To develop new features in Ribbon:

1. Install npm if you don't already have it.

2. Clone this repository and build it:

   git clone https://github.com/marianattestad/ribbon
   cd ribbon
   npm install
   npm run build