HIV-Trace Viewer (Galaxy Plugin)

The HIV-Trace Viewer is a Galaxy visualization plugin for interactive exploration of transmission networks inferred by HIV-TRACE. It renders graph-based results directly inside Galaxy, allowing users to examine connected components, cluster sizes, and metadata-linked attributes.

Features

- Network visualization of HIV-TRACE output
- Interactive node and edge exploration
- Metadata integration for coloring and filtering
- Seamless embedding into the Galaxy visualization framework

Installation

Place the plugin directory under Galaxy’s config/plugins/visualizations/ and restart Galaxy.

Usage

1. Run HIV-TRACE within Galaxy to generate a network file.
2. Open the dataset and select HIV-Trace Viewer from the visualization menu.
3. Explore the interactive network in the browser.

Requirements

- Galaxy 25.0 or newer
- Modern web browser with JavaScript enabled