diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index 05d49a514d6..3ce83722f77 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -9594,6 +9594,10 @@
       "integrity": "sha512-BMpfD7PpiETpBl/A6S498BaIJ6Y/ABT93ETbby2fP00v4EbvPBXWEoaR1UBPKs3iR53pJY7EtZk5KACI57i1Uw==",
       "dev": true
     },
+    "igv-utils": {
+      "version": "github:igvteam/igv-utils#22ee3f784d698e4ca8228db22f9b39db052d00b8",
+      "from": "github:igvteam/igv-utils#v1.2.10-jb"
+    },
     "immutable": {
       "version": "3.8.2",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/immutable/-/immutable-3.8.2.tgz",
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 142bca1ef13..6f4d37e76ce 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
     "genome-visualizer": "ENCODE-DCC/valis-hpgv#1.9.0",
     "google-analytics": "file:node_shims/google-analytics",
     "graphlib": "ENCODE-DCC/graphlib#v1.0.8",
+    "igv-utils": "github:igvteam/igv-utils#v1.2.10-jb",
     "immutable": "^3.7.5",
     "install": "^0.13.0",
     "js-cookie": "^2.2.1",
diff --git a/src/encoded/static/components/vis_defines.js b/src/encoded/static/components/vis_defines.js
index 89ac4f9888a..6dd877aa366 100644
--- a/src/encoded/static/components/vis_defines.js
+++ b/src/encoded/static/components/vis_defines.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import React from 'react';
 import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
 import _ from 'underscore';
 import url from 'url';
+import { StringUtils } from 'igv-utils';
 import * as encoding from '../libs/query_encoding';
 import { Modal, ModalHeader, ModalBody, ModalFooter } from '../libs/ui/modal';
 import * as globals from './globals';
@@ -116,12 +117,16 @@ export const visOpenBrowser = (dataset, browser, assembly, files, datasetUrl) =>
         delete parsedUrl.path;
         delete parsedUrl.search;
         delete parsedUrl.query;
-        const fileQueries = files.map((file) => {
-            parsedUrl.pathname = file.href;
-            const name = file.biological_replicates && file.biological_replicates.length > 0 ? `&name=${dataset.accession} / ${file.title}, Replicate ${file.biological_replicates.join(',')}` : '';
-            return encoding.encodedURIComponentOLD(`{hicUrl=${url.format(parsedUrl)}${name}}`, { encodeEquals: true });
+        const juiceboxSessionJsonString = JSON.stringify({
+            browsers: files.map((file) => {
+                parsedUrl.pathname = file.href;
+                return {
+                    name: file.biological_replicates && file.biological_replicates.length > 0 ? `${dataset.accession} / ${file.title}, Replicate ${file.biological_replicates.join(',')}` : '',
+                    url: url.format(parsedUrl),
+                };
+            }),
         });
-        href = `http://aidenlab.org/juicebox/?juicebox=${fileQueries.join(',')}`;
+        href = `http://aidenlab.org/juicebox/?session=blob:${StringUtils.compressString(juiceboxSessionJsonString)}`;
         break;
     }
     case 'Ensembl': {
diff --git a/src/encoded/static/vis_defs/HiC_vis_def.json b/src/encoded/static/vis_defs/HiC_vis_def.json
index cf25416a50c..0fae1e12569 100644
--- a/src/encoded/static/vis_defs/HiC_vis_def.json
+++ b/src/encoded/static/vis_defs/HiC_vis_def.json
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
         "sortOrder": [ "Biosample", "Targets", "Replicates", "Views" ],
         "Views": {
             "tag": "view",
-            "group_order": [ "Topologically associated domains", "Nested TADs", "Genome compartments" ],
+            "group_order": [ "Topologically associated domains", "Nested TADs", "Genome compartments", "HiC" ],
             "groups": {
                 "Topologically associated domains": {
                     "tag": "aTADS",
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@
                     "maxHeightPixels": "64:18:8",
                     "windowingFunction": "mean+whiskers",
                     "output_type": [ "genome compartments" ]
+                },
+                "HiC": {
+                    "tag": "dHIC",
+                    "visibility": "dense",
+                    "type": "hic",
+                    "output_type": [ "chromatin interactions" ]
                 }
             }
         },
diff --git a/src/encoded/vis_defines.py b/src/encoded/vis_defines.py
index 287757df50f..8ae958b3df8 100644
--- a/src/encoded/vis_defines.py
+++ b/src/encoded/vis_defines.py
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 }
 
 BROWSER_FILE_TYPES = {
-    'ucsc': {'bigWig', 'bigBed', 'bigInteract'},
+    'ucsc': {'bigWig', 'bigBed', 'bigInteract', 'hic'},
     'ensembl': {'bigWig', 'bigBed'},
     'quickview': {'bigWig', 'bigBed'},
     'hic': {'hic'},