JBrowse 2: Sharing views

Sharing views in JBrowse 2 is not as easy as it is in JBrowse 1, but there is also more power in the ability to share views and data. In JBrowse 1, the entire state of the “core” view is always encoded in the URL: if you copy the URL from the browser’s location bar and send it to someone, they will get the same view as the original user. This has several limits though: if the user has loaded local data, no information about it would get into the URL. The same is true if the user has created a sequence search track: that information is not encoded in the URL.

JBrowse 2, on the other hand, does not encode information about the view in the URL. Sending somebody the URL copied from the web browser’s location bar will only result in an error when somebody else tries to use it. The solution is to use the “Share” button at the top-center of the JBrowse page. Doing so produces a dialog box that will give you a few options:

JBrowse uses a built-in URL shortener to give a key and a password to resolve a JBrowse view. If you turn off the shortener (by tapping the “Settings” glyph above the URL), you will get a Very Long URL that encodes everything about the JBrowse session. Whether you use the shortened URL or the long session URL, it will include every view that is open, including the assemblies and locations, the tracks that are open, how tall each of those tracks are, and any user-added (ie, “Session”) tracks.

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Source: WormBase - July 14, 2023 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Authors: Scott Cain Tags: news tutorials jbrowse2 Source Type: news