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6z"></path></svg></a>Configuration Loading, Files, and Formats</h2> <p>JBrowse supports <strong>two configuration formats</strong>, a JSON-based format and a GBrowse-like textual format that is easier to edit and maintain by hand than JSON. Sites can use either format, or a mixture of both. The default shipped configuration of JBrowse uses both: jbrowse.conf in the main JBrowse directory for global settings, and trackList.json in each data directory for dataset-specific configuration in JSON, and tracks.conf in the data directory for dataset-specific configuration in .conf format.</p> <h3><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="javascript-object-notation-json-configuration-format-json"></a><a href="#javascript-object-notation-json-configuration-format-json" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Configuration Format (.json)</h3> <p>The JSON configuration format was the first format supported by JBrowse, and is easy for software programs to read and modify. Before version 1.11.0, this was the only format supported by JBrowse.</p> <p>As an example, the trackList.json file might have something like this. Here is an example of a BAM track</p> <pre><code class="hljs">{ "tracks": [ { "urlTemplate" : "volvox-sorted.bam", "storeClass" : "JBrowse/Store/SeqFeature/BAM", "type" : "JBrowse/View/Track/Alignments2", "label" : "BAM_track", "key" : "My BAM track" "style": { "color": "red" } } ] } </code></pre> <p>The specifics of this config are not essential, we are specifying an array of tracks in a trackList.json style, and each track is an object that includes some parameters like the urlTemplate to refer to the location of the BAM file on the server relative to the data directory, the color of the features, etc.</p> <h4><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="considerations-for-the-json-format"></a><a href="#considerations-for-the-json-format" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Considerations for the JSON format</h4> <ul> <li>Nested objects are specified using typical JSON format, using curly brackets</li> <li>Booleans and numbers should remain unquoted</li> <li>Functions do remain quoted however e.g. "style": { "color": "function() { /* your code here */ }" }</li> <li>JSON strings should not contain line breaks (see Text .conf format for info on multiline callbacks)</li> <li>Configuration values can be stored in both jbrowse_conf.json or in trackList.json (or conf files) i.e. the trackList.json does not only have to contain tracks, can contain other config entries</li> </ul> <h3><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="text-configuration-format-conf"></a><a href="#text-configuration-format-conf" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Text Configuration Format (.conf)</h3> <p>JBrowse 1.11.0 introduced support for a new text-based configuration format that users of GBrowse will find very familiar, since its design borrows heavily from GBrowse’s configuration syntax. It is fairly comfortable to hand-edit, but rather inconvenient for automated tools to work with. To get the best of both worlds, JBrowse supports both formats.</p> <p>This text configuration format can be used to specify</p> <ul> <li>general configuration options (i.e. jbrowse.conf <a href="#general-configuration-options">1</a>)</li> <li>track-specific options (i.e. tracks.conf <a href="#example-snpcoverage-configuration">2</a>)</li> <li>standalone files with extra code (i.e. functions.conf <a href="#including-external-files-and-functions-in-tracklistjson">3</a>).</li> </ul> <p>The text format has several benefits, including the ability to specify multi-line callbacks. Example:</p> <pre><code class="hljs"><span class="hljs-comment"># BAM track with a new callback</span> [tracks.mytrack] storeClass = JBrowse/Store/SeqFeature/BAM type = JBrowse/View/Track/Alignments2 urlTemplate = myfile.bam key = My BAM track style.color = function(feature) { /* comment */ return 'red'; } </code></pre> <h3><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="considerations-for-the-text-based-conf-format-"></a><a href="#considerations-for-the-text-based-conf-format-" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Considerations for the text-based .conf format</h3> <ul> <li>Comments should start with #</li> <li>The section labels, e.g. [tracks.testtrack] defines an identifier for the track named testtrack, so you should not have dots in your identifier, e.g. don't use something like this [tracks.test.track]</li> <li>Don't quote the values in the file, e.g key=My BAM track, not key="My BAM track"</li> <li>Nested values can specified using 'dot' notation, e.g. "style.color"</li> <li>A "section" can be specified with square brackets, e.g. [trackMetadata] will create the config variable trackMetadata and the values in the section are added to it.</li> <li>Extra JSON values can be specified in the conf file using the syntax json:{...} (see [4] for example)</li> <li>Very large .conf files (thousands of lines) files can take longer to parse than equivalent JSON</li> <li>An array of values can be built up over multiple lines. NOTE: A quirk of the format is that there cannot be more than 4 spaces before the + sign in each item. Example:</li> </ul> <pre><code class="hljs"> [trackMetadata] sources = + <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">data</span>/mymeta.csv</span> + <span class="hljs-class"><span class="hljs-keyword">data</span>/more_meta.csv</span> </code></pre> <h3><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="callback-function-specific-considerations-for-the-text-based-conf-format-"></a><a href="#callback-function-specific-considerations-for-the-text-based-conf-format-" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Callback-function specific considerations for the text-based .conf format</h3> <ul> <li>Comments inside callbacks can use the /* */ format but not the // format</li> <li>All lines of a multi-line callback should be spaced away from the left-most column, including the closing bracket (see the style.color example above)</li> <li>There should be no blank lines inside a multi-line callback</li> <li>Refer to [5] for more info on multi-line functions</li> </ul> <h2><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="configuration-loading-details"></a><a href="#configuration-loading-details" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Configuration loading details</h2> <p>Configuration loading details When your web browser loads a page containing JBrowse, and JBrowse starts, the following steps are done</p> <ul> <li>In index.html, read the URL params (e.g. query params like &data= and &tracks, &loc=, etc.)</li> <li>In index.html, create a JSON blob using URL params and pass them to the Browser.js constructor which you can see on index.html</li> <li>In Browser.js, the constructor is a JSON blob that becomes the "root configuration object"</li> <li>In Browser.js, mix the root config with the _defaultConfig object</li> <li>In _defaultConfig, the default is to include both jbrowse_conf.json and jbrowse.conf config files</li> <li>In jbrowse.conf, the default is to include {dataRoot}/trackList.json {dataRoot}/tracks.conf</li> <li>This is how you eventually get the trackList.json and tracks.conf files from your data directory loaded. Note that the &data=blah URL parameter becomes the dataRoot config parameter, so dataRoot would be "blah" in that case. h</li> </ul> <p>The configuration system then merges all this information, e.g. from the URL params, from the Browser constructors, the defaultConfigs, the jbrowse.conf, the jbrowse_conf.json, the trackList.json, the tracks.conf, and any files that the trackList.json or tracks.conf files themselves include, into a single config.</p> <p>Generally this happens all seamlessly, and both the text-based .conf format and .json config files can co-exist. That is because anything that can be written as a .conf file can also be written as a .json, they are both parsed on the client side into config objects.</p> <h2><a class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" id="including-external-files-and-functions-in-tracklistjson"></a><a href="#including-external-files-and-functions-in-tracklistjson" aria-hidden="true" class="hash-link"><svg class="hash-link-icon" aria-hidden="true" height="16" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 16 16" width="16"><path fill-rule="evenodd" d="M4 9h1v1H4c-1.5 0-3-1.69-3-3.5S2.55 3 4 3h4c1.45 0 3 1.69 3 3.5 0 1.41-.91 2.72-2 3.25V8.59c.58-.45 1-1.27 1-2.09C10 5.22 8.98 4 8 4H4c-.98 0-2 1.22-2 2.5S3 9 4 9zm9-3h-1v1h1c1 0 2 1.22 2 2.5S13.98 12 13 12H9c-.98 0-2-1.22-2-2.5 0-.83.42-1.64 1-2.09V6.25c-1.09.53-2 1.84-2 3.25C6 11.31 7.55 13 9 13h4c1.45 0 3-1.69 3-3.5S14.5 6 13 6z"></path></svg></a>Including external files and functions in trackList.json</h2> <p>The trackList.json configuration format is limited when it comes to specifying callbacks, because functions can only be specified on a single line. However, you can create functions in an external .conf file that span multiple lines and include them in the trackList.json configuration easily. The functions should follow the guidelines specified in the .conf section <a href="/#Text_Configuration_Format_.28.conf.29" title="wikilink">here</a>.</p> <p>Example: say there is a complex coloring function, so it is stored in a file called functions.conf in the data directory</p> <pre><code class="hljs"># functions.conf customColor = function(feature) { return feature.get("type")=="mRNA" ? "green" : "blue"; /* note the closing bracket should be spaced away from the leftmost column */ } </code></pre> <p>Then you can use this function in a particular track by referencing it with curly brackets, or "variable interpolation".</p> <pre><code class="hljs">"style": { "color":"{customColor}" } </code></pre> <p>Make sure to also include your functions.conf in the "trackList.json" (e.g. anywhere outside the "tracks": [ ... ] section of trackList.json), add</p> <pre><code class="hljs">"include": "functions.conf" </code></pre> <p>Note that include can also be an array of multiple files</p> <pre><code class="hljs">"include": ["functions1.conf","functions2.conf"] </code></pre> <p>In the above example, the callback parameters exactly match, so the interpolated function can just be dropped in place. Alternatively, if the callback parameters don't match, you can store the interpolated function in a variable and adjust the callback parameters appropriately.</p> <pre><code class="hljs">"style": { "color": "function(feature) { var f={customColor}; return f(feature); }" } </code></pre> <p>or shorthand</p> <pre><code class="hljs">"style": { "color": "function(feature) { return ({customColor})(feature); }" } </code></pre> <p>See the general configuration section for details on the include command.</p> </span></div></article></div><div class="docs-prevnext"><a class="docs-prev button" href="/docs/mouse_configs.html">← Mouse clicks, menus, and popups</a><a class="docs-next button" href="/docs/dataset_selector.html">Dataset Selector →</a></div></div></div><nav class="onPageNav"><ul class="toc-headings"><li><a href="#configuration-loading-files-and-formats">Configuration Loading, Files, and Formats</a><ul class="toc-headings"><li><a href="#javascript-object-notation-json-configuration-format-json">JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Configuration Format (.json)</a></li><li><a href="#text-configuration-format-conf">Text Configuration Format (.conf)</a></li><li><a href="#considerations-for-the-text-based-conf-format-">Considerations for the text-based .conf format</a></li><li><a href="#callback-function-specific-considerations-for-the-text-based-conf-format-">Callback-function specific considerations for the text-based .conf format</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="#configuration-loading-details">Configuration loading details</a></li><li><a href="#including-external-files-and-functions-in-tracklistjson">Including external files and functions in trackList.json</a></li></ul></nav></div><footer class="nav-footer" id="footer"><section class="sitemap"><div><h5>Docs</h5><a href="/blog">Blog</a><a href="/docs/tutorial.html">Getting Started</a></div><div><h5>Community</h5><a href="https://gitter.im/GMOD/jbrowse">Project Chat</a><a href="https://twitter.com/JBrowseGossip" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Twitter</a></div><div><h5>More</h5><a href="https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse">GitHub</a><a class="github-button" href="https://github.com/GMOD/jbrowse" data-icon="octicon-star" data-count-href="/GMOD/jbrowse/stargazers" data-show-count="true" data-count-aria-label="# stargazers on GitHub" aria-label="Star this project on GitHub">Star</a></div></section><section class="copyright">Copyright © 2019 Evolutionary Software Foundation</section></footer></div></body></html>