IGV: genome_alias.tab is not taken in account

Question

[glihm]

Hi bioinformaticians,

I am a new user in IGV community, and I have troubles to add an alias file for my genome's chromosomes names.

I saw that, I have to do an "alias tab delimited file" and then put this file in the IGV directory. I did it, and I can not load my bam file.

So, I know that I can make the bowtie-build again changing the name of each chromosome's sequence and align with tophat again. But this solution is so long is my actual computer.. That is the reason why I have tried to use alias file.

Any kind of help or suggestions will be highly appreciated. ;)

Answer 1

[glihm]

Problem solved by uninstalling and re-installing IGV. Sorry for this post.