GRCh38 genome support

[David Hanna]

Hi IGV team,

Just curious if/when the GRCh38 reference will be supported.

Thanks!

[Jim Robinson]

Hi,

This will be included in the next IGV point release, by the end of the month.  It requires a release because the cytoband file for this build can't be parsed with the current IGV.  In the meantime you can download a fasta and its index from the URL below.   After saving these files locally,  load them from the Genomes menu (Load Genome from File...).   You can download the annotations from UCSC and load them from the file menu

Fasta

http://igv.broadinstitute.org/genomes/seq/hg38/hg38.fa
http://igv.broadinstitute.org/genomes/seq/hg38/hg38.fa.fai

Annotations   http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg38/database/refGene.txt.gz