About This Tool
This is a custom-built genome visualization tool for viewing structural variants and complex alignments. Upload your genomic data files to visualize:
- Structural variants (deletions, insertions, duplications, inversions)
- Long-read alignments
- Gene fusions and translocations
- Assembly-to-assembly comparisons
Controls
Supported: SAM, BAM, BED, VCF, or tab-delimited text
Genome Ribbon View
Click and drag to pan • Scroll to zoom • Click on features for details
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About the Genome Ribbon Visualizer
The Genome Ribbon is an interactive canvas for showing how genomic segments relate to one another. Rather than a linear coordinate track, a ribbon draws each sequence as a coloured band and connects matching regions between sequences, so duplications, inversions, translocations and repeat expansions are visible as shape.
This is the fastest way to communicate a rearrangement finding. In a written report, a statement like 'a 2.4 Mb inversion on chromosome 7' is abstract; in a ribbon, the crossing pattern and the scale of the event are immediately legible to a collaborator who does not read coordinates.
It is a browser tool, so you can paste or load results and share a view without uploading genomic data to any service.
What this tool does
Structural variant visualisation
Render deletions, duplications, inversions and translocations as ribbons between reference and query, with the affected span visible at a glance.
Alignment relationship view
Show which regions align between two assemblies, making conserved blocks and unmatched regions immediately distinguishable.
Interactive zoom and pan
Navigate down to a breakpoint and back out to a whole-chromosome overview without regenerating the figure.
Repeat expansion display
Illustrate tandem and interspersed repeat expansions, where copy number rather than sequence position is the interesting quantity.
Frequently asked questions
What kind of data does a genome ribbon show?
Any set of sequences or intervals where correspondence between them matters: assembly-to-reference alignments, structural variant calls, segmental duplications, repeat expansions and gene-family loci.
Is a ribbon better than a genome browser track?
They answer different questions. A track is precise about coordinates and lets you inspect bases. A ribbon is better for showing overall structure, conserved blocks and the shape of a rearrangement at a glance, especially when explaining results to people who are not genomics specialists.
Do I need to install anything?
No. The visualiser is JavaScript running in your browser. There is no server round trip and no data upload.
How do I report the finding once I can see it?
Record the coordinates, the supporting evidence such as read depth and split-read counts, and the predicted consequence. The visualisation is communication; the evidence is what makes the claim defensible in a paper or a clinical report.
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All processing happens locally in your browser. Nothing you upload is transmitted or stored, as described in the privacy policy.