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May 15, 2012 The IGV source code repository has moved to GitHub, at https://github.com/broadinstitute/IGV. 

April 20, 2012.  IGV 2.1 has been released.   See the release notes for more details.

April 19, 2012. See our new IGV paper in Briefings in Bioinformatics.

Overview

The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated genomic datasets. It supports a wide variety of data types, including array-based and next-generation sequence data, and genomic annotations.

Downloads

Please register to download IGV. After registering, you can log in at any time using your email address.  Permission to use IGV is granted under the GNU LGPL license.

Citing IGV

To cite your use of IGV in your publication:

James T. Robinson, Helga Thorvaldsdóttir, Wendy Winckler, Mitchell Guttman, Eric S. Lander, Gad Getz, Jill P. Mesirov. Integrative Genomics Viewer. Nature Biotechnology 29, 24–26 (2011), or 

Helga Thorvaldsdottir, James T. Robinson, Jill P. Mesirov. Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV): high-performance genomics data visualization and exploration. 
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2012.

Funding

Development of IGV is made possible by funding from the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, and the Starr Cancer Consortium.

IGV is participating in the GenomeSpace initiative.