Introduction
You can get the latest version of IGB by visiting Bioviz.org and clicking on the available download links. For information relating to operating system requirements and memory allocation, please read below.
IGB System Requirements
IGB is available for the Mac, Windows, and Linux operating systems with the following requirements:
- Mac requires OS X Version 10.7.3 or later.
- Windows requires Vista or Later (32-bit and 64-bit).
- Linux requires Java 1.8 installed
Memory
IGB now defaults to using 25% of system memory. This means that a machine with 4 GB of RAM will have approximately 1 GB of memory available for IGB to use; a machine with 16 GB of RAM will have approximately 4 GB.
The only exception to this is when running IGB on a 32-bit Windows computer, in which case the the available memory defaults to 1GB.
For users with large memory machines, there is a way to increase the amount of memory provided to IGB.
There is a "vmoptions" file in your IGB installation directory which contains a commented out jvm argument for setting the max heap size.
If you want to manually control the heap size you simply need to uncomment this line and adjust it to your needs.
- On Mac
- /Applications/Integrated Genome Browser/IntegratedGenomeBrowser.app/Contents/vmoptions.txt
- On Linux/Windows
- ${IGB_INSTALLATION_DIR}/IntegratedGenomeBrowser.vmoptions
Get IGB from Bioviz.org
You can find the latest version of IGB by visiting the downloads page at Bioviz.org.
Compile and run IGB from the source code
This is a good option if you want to use the most up-to-date version of IGB.
See the IGB Developer's Guide for how to obtain and compile the source code.