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.
If you need to deploy Ribbon locally, here are the steps:
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Install XAMPP on your computer (includes Apache and PHP)
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Go to the htdocs folder created during the install. On a Mac, the folder is located at /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/
cd /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/ -
Clone this repository into the htdocs folder
git clone https://github.com/marianattestad/ribbon -
Then go to a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari (Not tested on IE) and type into the url box:
localhost/ribbon
That is the entire installation process for Ribbon. Don't you love web applications?