What is the format of the input file to the IGV software?

Question

[Fahimeh.6868]

Hi everyone I am going to calculate the coverage of mapped data of the ngs analysis. I found igv software. What is the format of the input file to the IGV software? Do I need to index the bam file?

[ATpoint]

Nice that you did not even consider to add some more details or to show some minimal effort after your last (identical) question got closed. input file to the igv softwar

[GenoMax]

Do I need to index the bam file?

You need to co-ordinate sort and index the BAM file.

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

https://software.broadinstitute.org/software/igv/FileFormats