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James T. Robinson, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, Douglass Turner, Jill P. Mesirov
igv.js is an embeddable JavaScript implementation of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV). It can be easily dropped into any web page with a single line of code and has no external dependencies. The viewer runs completely in the web browser, with no backend server and no data pre-processing required.
Jeongbin Park, Liam H. Childs, Matthias Schlesner, Roland Eils
An increasing number of bioinformatics tools are developed in JavaScript to provide an interactive visual interface to users. However, there are no tools yet that enable fast client-side analysis of large, high-throughput sequencing file formats, such as BAM and VCF files. We present HTSlib-js, an asm.js-based…
Damien M. O’Halloran
Background: Node.js is an open-source and cross-platform environment that provides a JavaScript codebase for back-end server-side applications. JavaScript has been used to develop very fast, and user-friendly front-end tools for bioinformatic and phylogenetic analyses. However, no such toolkits are available using…
Yann Spöri, Jean-François Flot
Haxe is a general purpose, object-oriented programming language supporting syntactic macros. The Haxe compiler is well known for its ability to translate the source code of Haxe programs into the source code of a variety of other programming languages including Java, C++, JavaScript and Python. Although Haxe is…
J Kyle Medley, Joseph Hellerstein, Herbert M Sauro
The SBML standard is used in a number of online repositories for storing systems biology models, yet there is currently no Web–capable JavaScript library that can read and write the SBML format. This is a severe limitation since the Web has become a universal means of software distribution, and the graphical…