IGV - accessing BAM file from different server

[adrian]

Hi:

Is it possible to load a bam file located in a cluster server into IGV. I do not want to download bam file to Mac from server and load in IGV.

thanks
Adrian

[GenoMax]

Why not run IGV from the cluster and project the display back to your Mac using XQuartz (X11)?

[dpryan]

Well, you can load from a URL, but I can't vouch for how fast that really is. Can you just mount a shared file system from the cluster? On our cluster, for example, the $HOME directory is on a shared server that I can mount on my Mac at home (via a VPN connection) or my desktop computer in the lab. That makes things relatively convenient.