Dalliance is an interactive genome viewer which runs directly in your web browser. If you are running a modern browser with Javascript enabled, you should see it running on this page:
The aim is for a high level of interactivity. Drag to scroll ("Google Maps" style), or try a panning gesture if your input device supports this. You can add more data from the DAS registry by clicking the "Add track" button in the toolbar, or follow the links in the sidebar to browse other genomes or more data.
Dalliance requires a modern web browser with good support for Scalable Vector Graphics. Firefox 3.6+, Google Chrome, and Safari 5 are all tested regularly and seem to work nicely. Internet Explorer won't work at all, although we're optimistic that we'll be able to support IE9 (but not earlier versions) in the future.
Dalliance also doesn't currently support touch based hardware such as the iphone, ipod and ipad. We've looked at adding support but currently there are serious browser performance issues with the webkit which make scrolling ineffective.
Reference: Down TA, Piipari M, Hubbard TJ., Dalliance: interactive genome viewing on the web. Bioinformatics 2011 Jan 19. [Epub ahead of print] ukPMC pubmed