Python based BAM alignment viewer


License
MIT
Install
pip install pybamview==1.0.0

Documentation

pybamview

Browser based application for viewing bam alignments

The website is here and contains full usage instructions, an faq, and a served example.

Copyright (c) 2014 Melissa Gymrek mgymrek@mit.edu

LICENSE: MIT (see LICENSE.txt)

Requirements

PyBamView requires Python2.6 or greater. The following python packages are required:

  • Flask
  • pysam
  • pyfaidx

These can all be installed using pip or easy_install. Additionally, the package rsvg-convert is required for exporting alignment snapshots to PDF.

Installation

PyBamView can be easily installed using pip: pip install pybamview

To install from source, download or clone the package from github, ensure the required packages are installed, and run python setup.py install from the root directory of the pybamview package.

Usage

To use PyBamView, you will need a directory containing indexed BAM files, and optionally a reference genome. All reads in the BAM files must be annotated with a read group. To run, type the command:

pybamview --bamdir $BAMDIR --ref $REF.FA

This will serve pybamview at http://127.0.0.1:5000. Navigate to this URL at your web browser, where you can select samples and start visualizing alignments. Use the --ip and --port to change the host URL and port if desired.

Snapshots

PyBamView can also be used to take alignment "snapshots" from the command line. This requires node.js and npm to be installed (https://nodejs.org/en/) and the libraries d3 and jsdom to be installed. You can install these using:

npm install npm --global
npm install d3 --global
npm install jsdom --global

and setting NODE_PATH to the install location, e.g.:

export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules/

You can then create snapshots using the snapbam tool, e.g.:

snapbam \
	--bam examples/example.sorted.bam \
	--regions examples/example_targets.bed  \
	--zoom 1 \
	--samples mysample \
	--outdir ~/Desktop/snapshots/ \
	--filetype pdf \
	--buffer 40 \
	--ref hg19.fa

Full usage is available on the pybamview website.