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The basic idea for the faceted track selector is that any "top level" entry
in the track metadata becomes searchable in the track metadata. Example
{
 "type": "VariantTrack",
 "trackId": "volvox_test_vcf",
 "metadata": {
 "thing here": "hello"
 },
 "name": "volvox 1000genomes vcf",
 "assemblyNames": ["volvox"],
 "category": ["Variants"],
 "adapter": {
 "type": "VcfTabixAdapter",
 "uri": "volvox.test.vcf.gz"
 }
 },
That will make "thing here" a column and a facet filter, but also note that
it filters out "sparse" metadata columns by default, so it only shows
metadata that is shared across >5 tracks as a facet (arbitrary threshold)
You can toggle "Show sparse metadata columns" to show facets for even
metadata not shared by 5 tracks
[image: image.png]
There is no notion of only a subset of tracks appearing in the faceted
selector currently
-Colin
On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> There is documentation for adding the field ‘category’ as an active field
> to the faceted track selector. How do you add more fields to that so they
> can be used to filter tracks for in that pop up window? I tried added some
> random fields under the ‘metadata{}’ name in the config.json file. While
> they appear in the ‘About this track’ dialog they don’t appear in the
> faceted track selector.
>
>
>
> Also, is there a way I can limit which tracks I want to appear in the
> faceted track selector? I want a subset of tracks that can appear in their
> own faceted track selector with many metadata fields to filter upon similar
> to the original JBrowse. How do I do this in JBrowse 2?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Vaneet
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Hi,
There is documentation for adding the field 'category' as an active field to the faceted track selector. How do you add more fields to that so they can be used to filter tracks for in that pop up window? I tried added some random fields under the 'metadata{}' name in the config.json file. While they appear in the 'About this track' dialog they don't appear in the faceted track selector.
Also, is there a way I can limit which tracks I want to appear in the faceted track selector? I want a subset of tracks that can appear in their own faceted track selector with many metadata fields to filter upon similar to the original JBrowse. How do I do this in JBrowse 2?
Thanks,
Vaneet

(note that you can also change the entire "session title" in the same way
by clicking where it says "New session ..." on the top level blue
navigation bar)
-Colin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 3:07 PM Colin <col...@gm...> wrote:
> I don't believe this is currently possible. However, if this is just for
> screenshot purposes or just to remember what was searched, note that you
> can manually edit the "View title" in the purple bar view header.
>
> For example, see the screenshot below: It says "My custom text here" in
> the view header, just due to me clicking the view header text and typing to
> make my own custom title
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> Hope that helps
>
> -Colin
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> My PI was curious about something in JBrowse2. When you enter a search
>> result in the location box and visit the location where the gene is in the
>> genome, is it possible to allow the search results to remain in the search
>> box instead of it switching automatically to the genome coordinates? Or
>> perhaps can the gene search result remain anywhere in that top panel after
>> you've visited your gene of interest. I assume this isn't possible but
>> just thought I'd ask if there's a plugin for it perhaps.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vaneet
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I don't believe this is currently possible. However, if this is just for
screenshot purposes or just to remember what was searched, note that you
can manually edit the "View title" in the purple bar view header.
For example, see the screenshot below: It says "My custom text here" in the
view header, just due to me clicking the view header text and typing to
make my own custom title
[image: image.png]
Hope that helps
-Colin
On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> My PI was curious about something in JBrowse2. When you enter a search
> result in the location box and visit the location where the gene is in the
> genome, is it possible to allow the search results to remain in the search
> box instead of it switching automatically to the genome coordinates? Or
> perhaps can the gene search result remain anywhere in that top panel after
> you've visited your gene of interest. I assume this isn't possible but
> just thought I'd ask if there's a plugin for it perhaps.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vaneet
> _______________________________________________
> Gmod-ajax mailing list
> Gmo...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gmod-ajax
>

Hi,
My PI was curious about something in JBrowse2. When you enter a search result in the location box and visit the location where the gene is in the genome, is it possible to allow the search results to remain in the search box instead of it switching automatically to the genome coordinates? Or perhaps can the gene search result remain anywhere in that top panel after you've visited your gene of interest. I assume this isn't possible but just thought I'd ask if there's a plugin for it perhaps.
Thanks,
Vaneet

Currently there is no option for this. Potential could add it though!
If you can make a github issue for it that would be great
-Colin
On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM Ke Jiang <bio...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to know whether it is possible to turn off the rendering of the
> "genotype" column for a VCF track in the feature details in the track
> configuration. Looks like as a user viewing the track, we can click the
> "columns" button to select the columns to show. But is there a way to
> selectively hide columns in the backend of track configuration, so by
> default users would only see certain columns of VCF INFO fields?
>
> For an example, see attached screenshot. We'd like to show only "sample"
> and "GT" by default, no "genotype" column.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ke
> [image: Screenshot 2025年05月29日 at 1.48.16 PM.png]
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Hi,
I'd like to know whether it is possible to turn off the rendering of the
"genotype" column for a VCF track in the feature details in the track
configuration. Looks like as a user viewing the track, we can click the
"columns" button to select the columns to show. But is there a way to
selectively hide columns in the backend of track configuration, so by
default users would only see certain columns of VCF INFO fields?
For an example, see attached screenshot. We'd like to show only "sample"
and "GT" by default, no "genotype" column.
Thanks!
Ke
[image: Screenshot 2025年05月29日 at 1.48.16 PM.png]

Hey Colin,
Here’s an example for the hhat gene:
https://jbrowse.xenbase.org/XenJBrowse/?data=data%2Fxt10_0&loc=Chr5%3A15519428..15720936&tracks=DNA%2CXT10_0_Xenbase%2CgRNAs&highlight=
If you click on the gene models and then ‘show subfeatures’, you can see the UTR being repeated several times, which isn’t present in the GFF3 file itself. Most models with UTRs show this repeated issue.
Thanks,
Vaneet
From: Colin <col...@gm...>
Sent: May 12, 2025 1:35 PM
To: Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
Cc: gmo...@li...
Subject: Re: JBrowse subfeatures repeating bug?
[△しろさんかくEXTERNAL]
If you can send a link it may help
-Colin
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...<mailto:van...@uc...>> wrote:
Hi Colin,
Have you ever encountered this bug below in JBrowse when using ‘NCBI’ style GFF3s with implied UTRs to be drawn in the JBrowse tracks?
Anyone else ever run into this issue? I’m just wondering if there’s something that can be done to prevent it from repeating like that. I can give a direct link to someone if they want to see the issue live and recreate it.
Thanks,
Vaneet
From: Vaneet Lotay
Sent: April 9, 2025 10:51 AM
To: gmo...@li...<mailto:gmo...@li...>
Subject: JBrowse subfeatures repeating bug?
Hi,
I’m not sure if anyone’s already run into this bug before, at least it certainly seems like a bug. When I click on my gene model in JBrowse, and then click on subfeatures under a given mRNA, the same 3’UTR or 5’UTR segment gets displayed multiple times as duplicates with the same coordinates (screenshot attached). It doesn’t matter which model I select or even under which species or genome for that matter that it’s under, it always appears repeated like that in the details window. Here’s a trimmed down version of the hhex.S gene that’s in the screenshot from my GFF3 (column 9 attributes trimmed off) just so it can fit here:
Chr7S Gnomon gene 15890549 15902647 . - . ID=XBXL10_1g32594;Name=hhex.S
Chr7S Gnomon mRNA 15890549 15902647 . - . ID=XBmRNA61523;Parent=XBXL10_1g32594
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15902179 15902647 . - . ID=XBexon785823;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15896206 15896384 . - . ID=XBexon785824;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15894761 15894811 . - . ID=XBexon785825;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15890549 15891175 . - . ID=XBexon785826;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15902179 15902551 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15896206 15896384 . - 2 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15894761 15894811 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15890948 15891175 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
I have this setting enabled in my track to draw out the ‘implied’ UTRs which aren’t directly supplied in the GFF3 file:
 "impliedUTRs" : true,
Has anyone run into this before? Is it a technical bug? Why is it happening?
Thanks,
Vaneet

If you can send a link it may help
-Colin
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:
> Hi Colin,
>
>
>
> Have you ever encountered this bug below in JBrowse when using ‘NCBI’
> style GFF3s with implied UTRs to be drawn in the JBrowse tracks?
>
>
>
> Anyone else ever run into this issue? I’m just wondering if there’s
> something that can be done to prevent it from repeating like that. I can
> give a direct link to someone if they want to see the issue live and
> recreate it.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Vaneet
>
>
>
> *From:* Vaneet Lotay
> *Sent:* April 9, 2025 10:51 AM
> *To:* gmo...@li...
> *Subject:* JBrowse subfeatures repeating bug?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I’m not sure if anyone’s already run into this bug before, at least it
> certainly seems like a bug. When I click on my gene model in JBrowse, and
> then click on subfeatures under a given mRNA, the same 3’UTR or 5’UTR
> segment gets displayed multiple times as duplicates with the same
> coordinates (screenshot attached). It doesn’t matter which model I select
> or even under which species or genome for that matter that it’s under, it
> always appears repeated like that in the details window. Here’s a trimmed
> down version of the hhex.S gene that’s in the screenshot from my GFF3
> (column 9 attributes trimmed off) just so it can fit here:
>
>
>
> Chr7S Gnomon gene 15890549 15902647 . -
> . ID=XBXL10_1g32594;Name=hhex.S
>
> Chr7S Gnomon mRNA 15890549 15902647 . -
> . ID=XBmRNA61523;Parent=XBXL10_1g32594
>
> Chr7S Gnomon exon 15902179 15902647 . -
> . ID=XBexon785823;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon exon 15896206 15896384 . -
> . ID=XBexon785824;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon exon 15894761 15894811 . -
> . ID=XBexon785825;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon exon 15890549 15891175 . -
> . ID=XBexon785826;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15902179 15902551 . -
> 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15896206 15896384 . -
> 2 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15894761 15894811 . -
> 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
> Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15890948 15891175 . -
> 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
>
>
>
> I have this setting enabled in my track to draw out the ‘implied’ UTRs
> which aren’t directly supplied in the GFF3 file:
>
>
>
> "impliedUTRs" : true,
>
>
>
> Has anyone run into this before? Is it a technical bug? Why is it
> happening?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Vaneet
>

Hi Colin,
Have you ever encountered this bug below in JBrowse when using 'NCBI' style GFF3s with implied UTRs to be drawn in the JBrowse tracks?
Anyone else ever run into this issue? I'm just wondering if there's something that can be done to prevent it from repeating like that. I can give a direct link to someone if they want to see the issue live and recreate it.
Thanks,
Vaneet
From: Vaneet Lotay
Sent: April 9, 2025 10:51 AM
To: gmo...@li...
Subject: JBrowse subfeatures repeating bug?
Hi,
I'm not sure if anyone's already run into this bug before, at least it certainly seems like a bug. When I click on my gene model in JBrowse, and then click on subfeatures under a given mRNA, the same 3'UTR or 5'UTR segment gets displayed multiple times as duplicates with the same coordinates (screenshot attached). It doesn't matter which model I select or even under which species or genome for that matter that it's under, it always appears repeated like that in the details window. Here's a trimmed down version of the hhex.S gene that's in the screenshot from my GFF3 (column 9 attributes trimmed off) just so it can fit here:
Chr7S Gnomon gene 15890549 15902647 . - . ID=XBXL10_1g32594;Name=hhex.S
Chr7S Gnomon mRNA 15890549 15902647 . - . ID=XBmRNA61523;Parent=XBXL10_1g32594
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15902179 15902647 . - . ID=XBexon785823;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15896206 15896384 . - . ID=XBexon785824;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15894761 15894811 . - . ID=XBexon785825;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15890549 15891175 . - . ID=XBexon785826;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15902179 15902551 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15896206 15896384 . - 2 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15894761 15894811 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15890948 15891175 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
I have this setting enabled in my track to draw out the 'implied' UTRs which aren't directly supplied in the GFF3 file:
 "impliedUTRs" : true,
Has anyone run into this before? Is it a technical bug? Why is it happening?
Thanks,
Vaneet

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We’ve had the same problem of one single config.json getting too many
tracks and becoming too big to manage. We ended up establishing multiple
instances of JBrowse2 for different user groups. I think that is an option
to have multiple more manageable config.json files.
Ke
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I was curious when working with JBrowse2, is it very easy or user-friendly
> to setup multiple config.json files for the different genomes that may be
> hosted in the browser, similar to the original JBrowse? If so, then please
> explain what the best way to do that is. Or is JBrowse2 basically built to
> work best with one central config.json file as it is by default?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
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>
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>
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>
> Vaneet
>
>
>
> *Vaneet Lotay*
>
> *Xenbase Bioinformatician*
>
> *University of Calgary*
>
> *2500 University Drive NW
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Hi,
I'm not sure if anyone's already run into this bug before, at least it certainly seems like a bug. When I click on my gene model in JBrowse, and then click on subfeatures under a given mRNA, the same 3'UTR or 5'UTR segment gets displayed multiple times as duplicates with the same coordinates (screenshot attached). It doesn't matter which model I select or even under which species or genome for that matter that it's under, it always appears repeated like that in the details window. Here's a trimmed down version of the hhex.S gene that's in the screenshot from my GFF3 (column 9 attributes trimmed off) just so it can fit here:
Chr7S Gnomon gene 15890549 15902647 . - . ID=XBXL10_1g32594;Name=hhex.S
Chr7S Gnomon mRNA 15890549 15902647 . - . ID=XBmRNA61523;Parent=XBXL10_1g32594
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15902179 15902647 . - . ID=XBexon785823;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15896206 15896384 . - . ID=XBexon785824;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15894761 15894811 . - . ID=XBexon785825;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon exon 15890549 15891175 . - . ID=XBexon785826;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15902179 15902551 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15896206 15896384 . - 2 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15894761 15894811 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
Chr7S Gnomon CDS 15890948 15891175 . - 0 ID=XBcds718348;Parent=XBmRNA61523
I have this setting enabled in my track to draw out the 'implied' UTRs which aren't directly supplied in the GFF3 file:
 "impliedUTRs" : true,
Has anyone run into this before? Is it a technical bug? Why is it happening?
Thanks,
Vaneet

Thanks for that great info!
I find it cleaner having different config files but if it loses the ability to compare multiple genomes at once, I don’t think it’s worth it. I’ll probably stick to one main config.json file.
Vaneet
From: Colin <col...@gm...>
Sent: April 8, 2025 1:00 PM
To: Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
Cc: gmo...@li...
Subject: Re: [Gmod-ajax] JBrowse2 config file
[△しろさんかくEXTERNAL]
Hi Vaneet
It will depend on your particular setup.
JBrowse 2 "likes" a single config.json, particularly because it enables comparing multiple genomes.
However, for either technical or administrative reasons, some people get overwhelmed by having a single config, and they make multiple configs
You can navigate to specific configs using
yoursite.com/jbrowse/?config=genomeA_config.json<http://yoursite.com/jbrowse/?config=genomeA_config.json>
You can also use the command line to write to specific configs using e.g.
jbrowse add-track --out genomeA_config.json
Finally, you can also optionally write scripts to merge configs. A script to merge configs tends to be pretty simple, you can simply concatenate the list of assemblies and tracks from different configs.
-Colin
PS We have had a couple great meetings with your XenBase colleagues!
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...<mailto:van...@uc...>> wrote:
Hello,
I was curious when working with JBrowse2, is it very easy or user-friendly to setup multiple config.json files for the different genomes that may be hosted in the browser, similar to the original JBrowse? If so, then please explain what the best way to do that is. Or is JBrowse2 basically built to work best with one central config.json file as it is by default?
Thanks,
Vaneet
Vaneet Lotay
Xenbase Bioinformatician
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
CANADA
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Hi Vaneet
It will depend on your particular setup.
JBrowse 2 "likes" a single config.json, particularly because it enables
comparing multiple genomes.
However, for either technical or administrative reasons, some people get
overwhelmed by having a single config, and they make multiple configs
You can navigate to specific configs using
yoursite.com/jbrowse/?config=genomeA_config.json
You can also use the command line to write to specific configs using e.g.
jbrowse add-track --out genomeA_config.json
Finally, you can also optionally write scripts to merge configs. A script
to merge configs tends to be pretty simple, you can simply concatenate the
list of assemblies and tracks from different configs.
-Colin
PS We have had a couple great meetings with your XenBase colleagues!
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM Vaneet Lotay <van...@uc...>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I was curious when working with JBrowse2, is it very easy or user-friendly
> to setup multiple config.json files for the different genomes that may be
> hosted in the browser, similar to the original JBrowse? If so, then please
> explain what the best way to do that is. Or is JBrowse2 basically built to
> work best with one central config.json file as it is by default?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Vaneet
>
>
>
> *Vaneet Lotay*
>
> *Xenbase Bioinformatician*
>
> *University of Calgary*
>
> *2500 University Drive NW*
>
> *Calgary, AB T2N 1N4*
>
> *CANADA*
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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Hello,
I was curious when working with JBrowse2, is it very easy or user-friendly to setup multiple config.json files for the different genomes that may be hosted in the browser, similar to the original JBrowse? If so, then please explain what the best way to do that is. Or is JBrowse2 basically built to work best with one central config.json file as it is by default?
Thanks,
Vaneet
Vaneet Lotay
Xenbase Bioinformatician
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
CANADA

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Hi there,
You might want to contact flybase
I was just looking around though and it looks like there are some downloads
for fly regulatory features via their wiki
https://wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase:JBrowse_Tracks#Genome_Level_Features
-Colin
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM James Tan Sheng Yi <
jam...@tu...> wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
>
> Hi, I'd like to obtain the information for several tracks about genomic
> regulatory elements (e.g., enhancers, POL2 sites, etc.) on Flybase
> JBrowse. In particular, I need the genomic location information to
> answer questions of whether my set of interesting SNPs are enriched tend
> to fall within a particular type of genomic regulatory element (e.g.,
> enriched in enhancers of any type, enhancers of a specific type, TFBS,
> etc.). I have scoured the site and found no way of getting these genomic
> locations of each element in a track within a single file
> straightforwardly. Any help on how to do this?
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Best,
>
> James
>
>
>
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To whom it may concern,
Hi, I'd like to obtain the information for several tracks about genomic 
regulatory elements (e.g., enhancers, POL2 sites, etc.) on Flybase 
JBrowse. In particular, I need the genomic location information to 
answer questions of whether my set of interesting SNPs are enriched tend 
to fall within a particular type of genomic regulatory element (e.g., 
enriched in enhancers of any type, enhancers of a specific type, TFBS, 
etc.). I have scoured the site and found no way of getting these genomic 
locations of each element in a track within a single file 
straightforwardly. Any help on how to do this?
Thank you!
Best,
James

Version 2.8.0 of Apollo has been released:
https://github.com/GMOD/Apollo/releases/tag/2.8.0.
This release fixes security vulnerabilities in Apollo versions 2.4.0
through 2.7.0. For a detailed report of these vulnerabilities, please see
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-063-07.
In summary, the discovered vulnerabilities include the ability of a
malicious user to escalate their privileges within the Apollo app to admin
levels (that is, they can become an Apollo administrator), the ability to
retrieve a list of email addresses of other Apollo users, and - most
seriously of all - the ability to upload arbitrary files to the file system
in any directory writable by the Tomcat process that runs the Apollo
server. While the Tomcat documentation recommends not running Tomcat as the
root user, this advice is often ignored by Linux distributions; for
example, in Ubuntu, Tomcat runs as root. Consequently it seems likely that
many installations will face the worst-case scenario that a malicious user
could upload system files that would allow remote access to the Apollo
server.
*It is critical that you update your Apollo 2.4.0 to 2.7.0 installations as
soon as possible.* While we are not aware of any active exploitation of
these vulnerabilities, it is only a matter of time before publicly
disclosed vulnerabilities are systematically exploited by hackers.
Consequently, we strongly recommend applying the update to protect your
systems.
We also want to make it clear that these patches only apply to the legacy
2.0 version of Apollo. Since 2018, Apollo development has been folded into
the JBrowse project, and the recently released version of Apollo (v3.0) was
designed with security principles built in from the start. Naturally, as
maintainers of version 2.0, we take your system security extremely
seriously and have made every effort to provide this security update in as
timely a fashion as possible.
In addition to the aforementioned Apollo vulnerabilities, the CISA
researchers also discovered a reflected cross-site scripting (XSS)
vulnerability in JBrowse 1, and we have included a patch for this as well.
We also note that, as with the Apollo 2 flaws, these security flaws do not
apply to the latest version of JBrowse (JBrowse 2), which was designed with
stronger security patterns from the outset.
If you are using Docker to deploy Apollo, there are two different images
you can choose from. The gmod/apollo:release-2.8.0-alternate
<https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/gmod/apollo/tags/release-2.8.0-alternate/sha256-a5d65e04fc597f0f71ea2c97dd6174ea1f1cca43912be53e3733c4fad2ee30e9>
image will provide a drop-in replacement for your existing Docker image.
This image, however, like past images, runs as the root user. If you would
like the additional security of not running as a root user, you can
use the gmod/apollo:release-2.8.0
image
<https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/gmod/apollo/tags/release-2.8.0/sha256-9760d56c6ec28edc2d3793ed11e7e659da2a7ac1973f3b1cfa32517551c2ff46>,
which does not run as the root user, but will require you to update any
mounted directories so they are accessible by a non-root user.
We understand that updates are inconvenient, but we emphasize that taking
this proactive step is essential to ensuring the security of your systems.
Sincerely,
The Apollo Team

Hi, Colin,
Great docs and function! They’re very helpful! Thanks for the update!
Thanks!
Ke
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM Colin <col...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Ke,
> Thanks for asking...I have been meaning to make a detailed documentation
> guide for these features.
>
> Here is a short writeup explaining the different ways to launch the
> breakpoint split view a gist form
> https://gist.github.com/cmdcolin/274040cff8a49c9e5265c4fa64265748
>
> The TLDR is that you can either launch the "breakpoint split view" from
>
> 1) the "SV inspector"
> 2) the feature details panels from clicking on reads or variant calls from
> a normal "linear genome view"
>
>
> I am going to try to polish this up and add this to our jbrowse.org docs
>
>
> -Colin
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM Ke Jiang <bio...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that there is a new visualization mode for breakpoint split
>> view to show paired read and split read orientations added in the update
>> from Sep. 2024. This could be a very useful tool for us to explore
>> potential larger scale SVs. There is not much information/docs about how
>> this feature is turned on, and what kind of data is needed for this
>> feature. From the Blog post, it seems we need both SV calls (VCFs?) and
>> alignment tracks for this? How do we turn this view on with these tracks?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Ke
>>
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Hi Ke,
Thanks for asking...I have been meaning to make a detailed documentation
guide for these features.
Here is a short writeup explaining the different ways to launch the
breakpoint split view a gist form
https://gist.github.com/cmdcolin/274040cff8a49c9e5265c4fa64265748
The TLDR is that you can either launch the "breakpoint split view" from
1) the "SV inspector"
2) the feature details panels from clicking on reads or variant calls from
a normal "linear genome view"
I am going to try to polish this up and add this to our jbrowse.org docs
-Colin
On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM Ke Jiang <bio...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that there is a new visualization mode for breakpoint split view
> to show paired read and split read orientations added in the update from
> Sep. 2024. This could be a very useful tool for us to explore potential
> larger scale SVs. There is not much information/docs about how this feature
> is turned on, and what kind of data is needed for this feature. From the
> Blog post, it seems we need both SV calls (VCFs?) and alignment tracks for
> this? How do we turn this view on with these tracks?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ke
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>

Hi,
I noticed that there is a new visualization mode for breakpoint split view
to show paired read and split read orientations added in the update from
Sep. 2024. This could be a very useful tool for us to explore potential
larger scale SVs. There is not much information/docs about how this feature
is turned on, and what kind of data is needed for this feature. From the
Blog post, it seems we need both SV calls (VCFs?) and alignment tracks for
this? How do we turn this view on with these tracks?
Thanks!
Ke

Hello Colin,
Thank you for the response!
Yes, I got it to work upgrading jbrowse version to the latest one.
Yeah, I think the feature to see where the current chromosome is located in entire genome would help for the researchers. Please let me know if you need any other information.
Thanks!
From: Colin <col...@gm...>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2024 3:05 PM
To: Revanth Sai Kumar Reddy Patel <rpa...@un...>
Cc: gmo...@li...
Subject: Re: [Gmod-ajax] Jbrowse2 | Highlight parameter Issue
Caution: Non-NU Email
Hi there,
Here is an example of using the highlight parameter, I think it works. If it is not working, can you confirm your jbrowse version you are using?
https://jbrowse.org/code/jb2/main/?config=test_data/volvox/config.json&loc=ctgA:1-800&assembly=volvox&tracks=gff3tabix_genes&highlight=ctgA:100-700<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/jbrowse.org/code/jb2/main/?config=test_data*volvox*config.json&loc=ctgA:1-800&assembly=volvox&tracks=gff3tabix_genes&highlight=ctgA:100-700__;Ly8!!PvXuogZ4sRB2p-tU!ERa2mmwoCtuCjJJ0y-est3ou8y_QnuKyzNbELzELXeZVzz_Ew8imG9jUTmbspzPycnMtnPFRSwJseZM-p7Bogw$>
>Another issue is when I load fasta assembly in jbrowse and in the search if I go to a specific gene or chromosome, I am losing the information of other genes to its sides as it only shows the gene searched for. Please let me know if there is a fix for this.
currently the search makes it zoom in to the exact boundaries of the feature of interest. do you want it to be a little more zoomed out? this is not currently configurable but we could try to add that
-Colin
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM Revanth Sai Kumar Reddy Patel via Gmod-ajax <gmo...@li...<mailto:gmo...@li...>> wrote:
Dear Team,
Hope you are doing well. I appreciate the development and contributions to open source community for Jbrowse.
I am currently facing issue using highlight in URL, I am using it as suggested in the document, but I don’t see anything highlighted on the UI. Please help me what could be going wrong here, do I need to install any other plugins or change configs?
Another issue is when I load fasta assembly in jbrowse and in the search if I go to a specific gene or chromosome, I am losing the information of other genes to its sides as it only shows the gene searched for. Please let me know if there is a fix for this.
I appreciate your response.
Best,
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Revanth Sai Kumar Reddy Patel
Software/System Engineer – Dr. Yin’s Lab
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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Hi there,
Here is an example of using the highlight parameter, I think it works. If
it is not working, can you confirm your jbrowse version you are using?
https://jbrowse.org/code/jb2/main/?config=test_data/volvox/config.json&loc=ctgA:1-800&assembly=volvox&tracks=gff3tabix_genes&highlight=ctgA:100-700
>Another issue is when I load fasta assembly in jbrowse and in the search
if I go to a specific gene or chromosome, I am losing the information of
other genes to its sides as it only shows the gene searched for. Please let
me know if there is a fix for this.
currently the search makes it zoom in to the exact boundaries of the
feature of interest. do you want it to be a little more zoomed out? this is
not currently configurable but we could try to add that
-Colin
On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 1:25 PM Revanth Sai Kumar Reddy Patel via Gmod-ajax
<gmo...@li...> wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> Hope you are doing well. I appreciate the development and contributions to
> open source community for Jbrowse.
>
> I am currently facing issue using highlight in URL, I am using it as
> suggested in the document, but I don’t see anything highlighted on the UI.
> Please help me what could be going wrong here, do I need to install any
> other plugins or change configs?
>
>
> Another issue is when I load fasta assembly in jbrowse and in the search
> if I go to a specific gene or chromosome, I am losing the information of
> other genes to its sides as it only shows the gene searched for. Please let
> me know if there is a fix for this.
>
> I appreciate your response.
>
> Best,
>
> *Revanth Sai Kumar Reddy Patel*
>
> *Software/System Engineer – **Dr. Yin’s Lab*
>
> University of Nebraska–Lincoln
>
>
>
>
>
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