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IGV BINARY DISTRIBUTION
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Prerequisites:

Java 5.0 or greater (http://www.java.com).   Version 6.0 or greater is highly recommended if available for your platform.


Instructions:

1. Download and unzip the distribution file to a directory of your choice.

2. To start IGV execute the following from the command line,

     java -Xmx750m -jar igv.jar

Alternatively, you can start IGV with one of the following scripts.  The scripts
are neccessary if you need to load HDF-5  (.h5) files.  These scripts launch
IGV with HDF5 libraries compiled for specific platforms. 


igv_win.bat         (for Windows 32 bit systems)
igv_linux.sh        (for LINUX 32 bit systems)
igv_linux-64.sh     (for LINUX 64 bit systems)
igv_mac-powerpc.sh  (for MAC OsX POWERPC systems)
igv_mac-intel.command    (for MAC OsX INTEL systems, double-click to start)

The bat and shell scripts are configured to start IGV with 750MB of
memory.  This is a reasonable default for most machines.  If you are
working with very large datasets you can increase the amount of memory
available to IGV by editing the first line of the startup script.
Specifically change the value of the "-Xmx" parameter.  For example,
to start IGV with 1 gigabyte of memory  change the value

   -Xmx750m

to 

   -Xmx1000m