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Remember how? Try it on your own first, before peeking...
Remember how? Try it on your own first, before peeking...

In the terminal connected to Lonestar, figure out the complete path to the IGV directory.

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pwd

Open a new terminal window on your Desktop. Fill in the parts in brackets <> in this command:

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scp -r <username>@lonestar.tacc.utexas.edu:</full/path/to/IGV/> .

Launching IGV

There are two ways, in you're web browser or by downloading the binaries locally and running IGV from your machine.

In Browser

Navigate a web browser to this page:http://www.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/download

Go ahead and click on the "Launch with 2 GB" option. This will download a "Java Web Start" file that you can launch by locating it on your Desktop and double-clicking.

Locally

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wget http://www.broadinstitute.org/igv/projects/downloads/IGV_2.1.14.zip
unzip IGV_2.1.14.zip
cd IGV_2.1.14
java -Xmx4g -jar igv.jar

Load genome into IGV

From the main window of IGV, click on File -> Import Genome and you should be presented with the following window.

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