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adrisede edited this page Feb 10, 2026 · 5 revisions

Public Stergachis static website

https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/stergachis-public1/index.html?prefix=

Use private AWS data in IGV without special links

Want to load private data into your IGV session without making secret URLs that expire? It is actually be very simple! First on your local computer you create a file in this location:

~/.aws/credentials

(on windows the credentials file should be placed here: C:\Users\username\.aws\credentials)

and then add this information to the file:

[default]
region = us-west-2
aws_access_key_id = 
aws_secret_access_key = 

where you fill out aws_access_key_id and aws_secret_access_key with your information.

If you are using files from Kopah, then please create & edit the config file:

~/.aws/config

with the following information:

and then add this information to the file:

[default]
region = us-west-2
output = json
endpoint_url = https://s3.kopah.uw.edu

And once you do that you can open IGV and directly load bam files using the s3 path via load url: image

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