Ribbon

Ribbon is an interactive web visualization tool for viewing genomic alignments of short/long reads or assembled contigs to any reference genome.

Ribbon is available online at genomeribbon.com and can even read large bam files straight from your computer without a local install.

Local deployment

If you need to deploy Ribbon locally, here are the steps:

Install XAMPP on your computer (includes Apache and PHP)
Go to the htdocs folder created during the install. On a Mac, the folder is located at /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/
```
cd /Applications/XAMPP/htdocs/
```

Clone this repository into the htdocs folder

git clone https://github.com/marianattestad/ribbon

Then go to a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, or Safari (Not tested on IE) and type into the url box:
```
localhost/ribbon
```

That is the entire installation process for Ribbon. Don't you love web applications?