Introduction

This page tests the External View tab functionality with the UCSC Genome Browser, both inside IGB and externally on the UCSC Genome Browser site.

View a region in an external genome browser

• • Open IGB.

• • Select the Mouse genome M_musculus_Dec_2011.

• • Go to chr1:74,635,704-74,635,919

• • Select the External View tab near the bottom of the window.

• • Confirm that the drop down list at the bottom right has UCSC selected as the external browser.

• • Click Update.

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Does the data load in the External View tab as seen above?

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• • Now select the View menu tab at the top of the window.

• • Click View Region in UCSC Browser.

A new internet browser window will launch showing the region you selected in IGB on the UCSC Genome Browser site.

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Does the web page load as seen above?

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