Tablet is a lightweight, high-performance graphical viewer for next generation sequence assemblies and alignments.
Tablet can be run via Java Web Start (Java 7 required).
Tablet is primarily developed on Windows 10, and gets additional regular testing on macOS and CentOS.
Key Features
- High-performance visualization and data navigation.
- Display of reads in both packed and stacked formats.
- File format support for ACE, AFG, MAQ, SOAP2, SAM, BAM, FASTA, FASTQ, and GFF3.
- Import GFF3, VCF, GTF or BED features and quickly find/highlight/display them.
- Search and locate reads by name or subsequence across entire data sets.
- Paired end visualization support (for SAM/BAM).
- CIGAR support within SAM/BAM for showing insertions, deletions, clipping events, etc
- Entire-contig overviews, showing data layout or coverage information.
- Simple install routine via auto-updating graphical installers.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: ics.hutton.ac.uk/tablet
Support: Documentation, FAQ, GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Information & Computational Sciences, The James Hutton Institute
License: BSD 2-Clause “Simplified” License
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