Ribbon: intuitive visualization for complex genomic variation

Ribbon is an alignment visualization tool that shows how alignments are positioned within both the reference and read contexts, giving an intuitive view that enables a better understanding of structural variants and the read evidence supporting them. Ribbon was born out of a need to curate complex structural variant calls and determine whether each was well supported by long-read evidence, and it uses the same intuitive visualization method to shed light on contig alignments from genome-to-genome comparisons.

Automated summary

Ribbon is a visualization tool that shows the positioning of alignments in both the reference genome and read contexts, providing an intuitive view to better understand structural variants and their supporting read evidence. It was developed to curate complex structural variant calls and determine if they are well supported by long-read evidence, using the same intuitive visualization method for genome-to-genome comparisons.