[Gmod-help] Sequence browser and version clarification

[Ian Holmes]

Yup - at some point jbrowse will be shipped as part of GBrowse. As Dave said, it's not that hard to set up both from the same database right now.

-Ian (by phone)

On Feb 15, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Dave Clements <clements at nescent.org> wrote:

> Hi Olen,
> 
> I'm going to expand on one of Scott's answers:
> 
> > 2) Is there a roadmap for a transition from GBrowse to JBrowse?
> 
> No.  We see JBrowse as the future for genome browsing, but it is
> currently not nearly as feature complete as GBrowse2.  They can work
> from the same data sources (that is, there are JBrowse loading scripts
> that will talk to any database that GBrowse talks to), so the
> transition would be relatively painless.  There are some sites that
> run both.
> 
> There is a long term plan to provide extensive GBrowse to JBrowse migration support and interoperability.  This is part of a grant which should start this spring.  Two of the major goals of that grant are to make JBrowse be as feature rich as GBrowse (and more), and migration support.
> 
> Dave C.
> 
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