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📄 New paper out in Bioinformatics!
We introduce Alignoth: a lightweight CLI tool for generating portable, self-contained, interactive HTML visualizations of read alignments — no server, no GUI, works headless on clusters & workflows.

✨ Interactive pileups
📦 Single-file HTML (shareable & privacy-friendly)
🦀 Implemented in Rust

👉 https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf663

🔗 Code: https://github.com/alignoth/alignoth

#bioinformatics #genomics #rust @johanneskoester

Felix Wiegand Oct 20

Super happy to announce a major update of our portable and interactive alignment viewer #alignoth written in #rust. The new version provides improved highlighting of specific genomic sites or regions via VCF or BED inputs and also updates the coverage plot with variants! @johanneskoester

Felix Wiegand May 28, 2025

Another major new #alignoth release is now available on #bioconda ⭐ Our read alignment plots now include a coverage plot on top as well as improved visualization of overlapping read pairs! Check out our interactive demo at https://alignoth.github.io/preview.html

@johanneskoester

Felix Wiegand May 26, 2025

@johanneskoester and I just released alignoth v0.15.0! 🎉 Now with a brand-new interactive mode: just run alignoth and follow the prompts—no CLI arguments needed.

https://github.com/alignoth/alignoth/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Felix Wiegand Jan 29, 2025

The latest #datavzrd version introduces a new pills option to visualize multiple values in a single table cell, with each ordinal value represented by a distinct color. @johanneskoester https://datavzrd.github.io

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