Re: [Gmod-ajax] Regarding Jbrowse Download

[Dinesh S. <ru...@gm...>]

Thank you for the information.

On Fri, 30 Jul 2021 at 11:19 PM, Colin <col...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Dinesh,
>
> You can probably ignore this dependency
>
> The use of libgd2 is a very old feature which sometimes pre-prepares
> "image tiles" for example for a wiggle track into PNG files for jbrowse to
> load. These days, this is not needed, as we have a special bigwig parser
> that runs on the client side
>
> You can even use jbrowse without even installing dependencies in some
> cases: if you only use indexed file formats you do not even need to run
> perl scripts
>
> See https://jbrowse.org/docs/tutorial.html
>
> If you want more info let me know
>
> Thanks,
> -Colin
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 11:19 AM Dinesh Sharma <ru...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> to introduce myself. I am Dinesh Sharma, A Bioinformatics PhD Scholar at
>> IIT Delhi, India.
>> I have been working on a genomics problem where at last I need to
>> showcase my results on a genome browser.
>> Since i had already used Jbrowse in past (version 1.16) and was hoping
>> that it will still work for me this time too, i tried installing the
>> Jbrowse 1.16 on my linux system, however as a prerequisite I need to
>> install the libgd2-noxpm-dev on linux 18.04, since the aforementioned
>> package is no longer available, I am not able to process with the
>> installation.
>> The new version Jbrowse 2 is a bit difficult for me to grasp and hence i
>> request you to please help me with the issue.
>>
>> Thanks and Regards
>> Dinesh Sharma
>> PhD Scholar
>> KSBS, SCFBio
>> IIT Delhi
>>
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