Show HN: tgv: Genome viewer for you and your agents

Category: ai-ml

Tags: genomics, terminal-ui, rust, mcp, bioinformatics

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 6, Utility: 7)

tgv is a terminal-based genome viewer written in Rust that supports vim-style navigation and rich file formats like BAM, VCF, and BED. It's designed for human-agent collaboration, exposing a Polars-based data engine via MCP so AI agents can interactively analyze multi-omics data without glue scripts. This fills a niche gap for bioinformaticians working over SSH and for integrating LLM agents into genomics workflows.

Target audience: bioinformaticians, computational biologists, genomics researchers, AI agent developers

Repository: https://github.com/zeqianli/tgv · Rust · MIT · 487 stars

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