Thanks all.

@Tim : had no idea about Scribl but from the initial glace looks pretty neat

-A

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. <tim.triche@gmail.com>wrote:

> A shiny version of visnab would be insanely great. Might be possible to
> farm out at least some of the heavy lifting for eg Circos style plots to
> d3, which is also insanely great.
>
> Off topic, but have you played with Scribl at all?  It seemed fairly
> usable for some of the tasks I find IGV handles.
>
> I can't say I will miss IGV if something better (webbier) comes along, but
> it is extensible in some important respects. The extending does take some
> work, though, and Java would not be my first choice for writing extensions
> if R and/or JS alternatives are available.
>
> --t
>
> On Jan 4, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Michael Lawrence <lawrence.michael@gene.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The visnab package has different goals from IGV. It aims to provide an
> extensible, R-based platform for interactive genomic visualization.
> Currently, IGV isn't very extensible at all, i.e., no plugin support, some
> nice scripting capabilities via its HTTP interface but no callback
> handling.  We decided to focus our energy on ggbio for a while, but Tengfei
> is still very much interested in pushing visnab forward. It is currently
> implemented on top of the R/Qt interface. One idea that has been floated is
> a port to the web browser, while retaining R callback support, via
> something like shiny. Over the holidays, I started porting the qtpaint API
> to javascript and the HTML5 canvas. So the foundations are forming.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. <tim.triche@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> IGV would seem to have obsoleted some aspects of visnab.
> >>
> >> ggbio, on the other hand, is awesome, as is Gviz.  Perhaps those may
> meet
> >> your needs?  Tengfei has certainly been pouring effort into ggbio, and
> Gviz
> >> is also released.  the two are complementary IMHO
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba@fhcrc.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hi Abhishek,
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Abhishek Pratap <apratap@lbl.gov>
> wrote:
> >> > > I saw an old note to myself that I wrote a while ago to check on
> >> > > visnab...and I dont see it as part of bioC as of now. Can anyone
> who is
> >> > > aware of the developments give me an update on the status of the
> >> > package. I
> >> > > am interested in playing with it.
> >> >
> >> > According to this github page:
> >> >
> >> > https://github.com/tengfei/visnab/wiki/Installation-Instruction
> >> >
> >> > visnab is not released to BioC yet.
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps Tengfei can give us a further status update.
> >> >
> >> > Dan
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks!
> >> > > -Abhi
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