SeqViz is a DNA, RNA, and protein sequence viewer.

Used By

Demo
Features
Usage
Contact Us

Demo

You can see a demo at seqviz.latticeautomation.com/. The source is in /demo.

Features

Linear and Circular Sequence Viewers

Annotations, primers, and highlights with names and colors
Amino acid translations
Enzyme cut sites
Searching with mismatches and highlighting

Sequence and Element Selection

Selecting a range on the viewer(s), or clicking an annotation, translation, primer, cutSite, or searchResult, highlights the selection and passes it to the onSelection() callback.

Usage

Installation

npm

npm install seqviz

CDN

<script src="https://unpkg.com/seqviz"></script>

Instantiation

React

import { SeqViz } from "seqviz";

export default () => (
  <SeqViz
    name="J23100"
    seq="TTGACGGCTAGCTCAGTCCTAGGTACAGTGCTAGC"
    annotations={[{ name: "promoter", start: 0, end: 34, direction: 1, color: "blue" }]}
  />
);

Non-React

More details are in the Viewer without React section.

<script>
  window.seqviz
    .Viewer("root", {
      name: "L09136",
      seq: "tcgcgcgtttcggtgatgacggtgaaaacctctgacacatgca",
      style: { height: "100vh", width: "100vw" },
    })
    .render();
</script>

Props

All the following are usable as props for the React component (seqviz.SeqViz) or as options for the plain JS implementation (seqviz.Viewer()).

Required

`seq (='')`

A sequence to render. Can be a DNA, RNA, or amino acid sequence.

File or Accession

These props are @deprecated and may be removed in a future major release. We recommend parsing sequence files outside of SeqViz with the seqparse package.

file is a FASTA, GenBank, SnapGene, JBEI, or SBOL file (string | File)
accession is an NCBI accession-ID (string)

For example:

import seqparse from "seqparse";

export default () => {
  const [seq, setSeq] = useState({ name: "", seq: "", annotations: [] });

  // fetch and parse a sequence from NCBI: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN623123.1
  useEffect(async () => setSeq(await seqparse("MN623123.1")));

  return <SeqViz name={seq.name} seq={seq.seq} annotations={seq.annotations} />;
};

Optional

`viewer (='both')`

The type and orientation of the sequence viewers. One of "linear" | "circular" | "both" | "both_flip". both means the circular viewer fills the left side of SeqViz, and the linear viewer fills the right. both_flip is the opposite: the linear viewer is on the left, and the circular viewer is on the right.

`name (='')`

The name of the sequence/plasmid. Shown at the center of the circular viewer.

`annotations (=[])`

An array of Annotations to render. Each Annotation requires 0-based start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) indexes. names are rendered on top of the annotations. Set the annotation's direction to 1 for forward arrows and -1 for reverse arrows.

annotations = [
  { start: 0, end: 22, name: "Strong promoter", direction: 1 }, // [0, 22)
  { start: 23, end: 273, name: "GFP" },
  { start: 300, end: 325, name: "Weak promoter", direction: -1, color: "#FAA887" },
];

In the example above, the "Strong promoter" would span the first to twenty-second base pair.

`primers (=[])`

An array of Primers to render. Each Primer requires 0-based start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) indexes. names are rendered on top of the primers. Set the primer's direction to 1 for forward primer and -1 for reverse primer.

primers = [
  { start: 33, end: 53, name: "LacZ Foward Primer", direction: 1 },
  { start: 3098, end: 3128, name: "LacZ Reverse Primer", direction: -1, color: "#FAA887" },
];

In the example above, the forward and reverse primers of LacZ are define by the direction parameter. Notice that color could be used optionally.

`translations (=[])`

An array of translations: sequence ranges to translate and render as amino acids sequences. Requires 0-based start (inclusive) and end (exclusive) indexes relative the DNA sequence. A direction is required: 1 (FWD) or -1 (REV). It will also render a handle to select the entire range. A color is optional for the handle. If the empry string ("") is provided as the name, the handle will not be rendered.

translations = [
  { start: 0, end: 90, direction: 1, name: "ORF 1", color: "#FAA887" }, // [0, 90)
  { start: 191, end: 522, direction: -1, name: "" },
];

`enzymes (=[])`

An array of restriction enzymes to show recognition sites for. A list of pre-defined enzymes in src/enzymes.ts can be referenced by name. Example:

enzymes = [
  "EcoRI",
  "PstI",
  {
    name: "Cas9",
    rseq: "NGG", // recognition sequence
    fcut: 0, // cut index on FWD strand, relative to start of rseq
    rcut: 1, // cut index on REV strand, relative to start of rseq
    color: "#D7E5F0", // color to highlight recognition site with
    // (optional) only show recognition sites between 100th and 250th index [100, 250)
    range: {
      start: 100,
      end: 250,
    },
  },
];

`highlights (=[])`

Ranges of sequence to highlight. A default color from colors is used if none is provided.

highlights = [
  { start: 36, end: 66, color: "magenta" },
  { start: 70, end: 80 },
];

`zoom (={ linear: 50 })`

How zoomed the viewer(s) should be 0-100. Key'ed by viewer type, but only linear is supported.

`colors (=[])`

An array of colors to use for annotations, translations, and highlights. Defaults are in src/colors.ts.

`bpColors (={})`

An object mapping base pairs to their color. The key/bp is either a nucleotide type or 0-based index. Example:

bpColors = { A: "#FF0000", T: "blue", 12: "#00FFFF" };

`style (={})`

Style for seqviz's outer container div. Empty by default. Useful for setting the height and width of the viewer if the element around seqviz lacks one. For example:

style = { height: "100vh", width: "100vw" };

`selection (={})`

This (optional) selection prop is useful if you want to externally manage and set the selection state:

selection = {
  start: 133,
  end: 457,
  clockwise: true,
};

`onSelection (=(_: Selection) => {})`

A callback executed after selection events. It accepts a single Selection type argument.

This occurs after drag/drop selections and clicks. It will have meta on annotation, translation, enzyme, highlight or search elements if one was selected. The example below shows an annotation selection:

{
  "end": 457,
  "length": 324,
  "name": "lacZ fragment",
  "start": 133,
  "type": "ANNOTATION",
}

`search (={})`

Sequence search parameters. Takes a query sequence and the maximum allowable mismatch for a match (default: 0). Matches are highlighted.

search = { query: "aatggtctc", mismatch: 1 };

Searching supports wildcard symbols, e.g. { query: "AANAA" }. All symbols supported are in src/sequence.ts.

`onSearch (=(_: Range) => {})`

A callback executed after a search event. This is called once on initial render and every time the sequence changes thereafter. An example of search results is below:

[
  {
    start: 728,
    end: 733,
    direction: 1,
    index: 0,
  },
  {
    start: 1788,
    end: 1793,
    direction: -1,
    index: 1,
  },
];

`copyEvent (=(e: KeyboardEvent) => e.key === "c" && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey))`

A function returning whether to copy the viewer(s) current selection during a keyboard event. The default method copies sequence after any ctrl+c or meta+c keyboard events.

`selectAllEvent (=(e: KeyboardEvent) => e.key === "a" && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey))`

A function returning whether to select the whole sequence during a keyboard event. The default method select whole sequence after any ctrl+a or meta+a keyboard events.

`showComplement (=true)`

Whether to show the complement sequence.

`rotateOnScroll (=true)`

By default, the circular viewer rotates when scrolling over the viewer. That can be disabled with rotateOnScroll: false.

`disableExternalFonts (=false)`

If true, SeqViz will not download fonts from external sites. By default the library will attempt to download "Roboto Mono:300,400,500" after first mount.

`refs (={ circular: undefined, linear: undefined })`

See: custom viewer positioning

Seqviz

Install / Use

README

Used By

Table of Contents

Demo

Features

Linear and Circular Sequence Viewers

Sequence and Element Selection

Usage

Installation

npm

CDN

Instantiation

React

Non-React

Props

Required

seq (='')

File or Accession

Optional

viewer (='both')

name (='')

annotations (=[])

primers (=[])

translations (=[])

enzymes (=[])

highlights (=[])

zoom (={ linear: 50 })

colors (=[])

bpColors (={})

style (={})

selection (={})

onSelection (=(_: Selection) => {})

search (={})

onSearch (=(_: Range) => {})

copyEvent (=(e: KeyboardEvent) => e.key === "c" && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey))

selectAllEvent (=(e: KeyboardEvent) => e.key === "a" && (e.metaKey || e.ctrlKey))

showComplement (=true)

rotateOnScroll (=true)

disableExternalFonts (=false)

refs (={ circular: undefined, linear: undefined })

Custom Viewer Positionin