LocusZoom.js: Interactive and embeddable visualization of genetic association study results

Andrew P Boughton, Ryan P Welch, Matthew Flickinger, Peter VandeHaar, Daniel Taliun, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Michael Boehnke
2021 Bioinformatics  
LocusZoom.js is a JavaScript library for creating interactive web-based visualizations of genetic association study results. It can display one or more traits in the context of relevant biological data (such as gene models and other genomic annotation), and allows interactive refinement of analysis models (by selecting linkage disequilibrium reference panels, identifying sets of likely causal variants, or comparisons to the GWAS catalog). It can be embedded in web pages to enable data sharing
more » ... d exploration. Views can be customized and extended to display other data types such as phenome-wide association study (PheWAS) results, chromatin co-accessibility, or eQTL measurements. A new web upload service harmonizes datasets, adds annotations, and makes it easy to explore user-provided result sets. Availability LocusZoom.js is open-source software under a permissive MIT license. Code and documentation are available at: https://github.com/statgen/locuszoom/. Installable packages for all versions are also distributed via NPM. Additional features are provided as standalone libraries to promote reuse. Use with your own GWAS results at https://my.locuszoom.org/. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab186 pmid:33734315 pmcid:PMC8479674 fatcat:gfensed7u5ej3ps3x6nkebht5i