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Select a single annotation or feature.

Click on it.

Select an entire gene model instead of an exon.

Directly select a whole gene by clicking on the line connecting the exons or on the label (if active). If you mistakenly select an exon instead of a gene, right-click in the blank background or on a selected annotation and choose anywhere within the track to open choose a menu, and Select parent.

Select a single graph.

Click on its handle - the rectangle at the left inside the main view window.

Select an entire annotation track.

Click on its track label in the left-hand panel. 

Select multiple annotations or graphs.

Drag the mouse through a region to select all enclosed items.  For graphs, the drag should include the graph handle.  Add to the current selection

Shift-click to add individual items or shift and drag to add multiple items.

Select multiple annotations/ features.

Click and drag the mouse around selected items. A drag must begin in the empty area, not on top of any annotation or in the coordinates track.You can use shift-click or shift-drag to select additional items.
Note: IGB will preferentially select whole gene annotations, as opposed to individual exons when using the click-drag selection method. To select many individual exons, you will need to select them individually using shift + click on each on
Tip: IGB reports the number of selected items in the lower left corner. Use this to count aligned sequences in an alignments track.

Deselect 1 item from a group selection.

Shift+cntl and click on the item to be deselected, without deselecting the whole group.

Select a sequence region.

Drag along the axis of the coordinates track to select a set of genomic residues.  To select residues, the drag must begin in the axis tier.

Deselect everything.

Click the empty background space in the viewer window.

Add to the current selection

Shift-click to add individual items or shift and drag to add multiple items.

Open a pop-up menu

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Select a single graph.

Click on its handle - the rectangle at the left inside the main view window

Select an entire annotation track.

Click on its track label in the left-hand panel.